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Cape Burks
Hull Bay () is an ice-filled bay, about wide, fed by Hull Glacier, which descends into it between Lynch Point and Cape Burks, on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovery and name Hull Bay was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–41. The bay derives its name from Hull Glacier, which was named for Cordell Hull, the United States Secretary of State. Location Hull Bay lies on the Southern Ocean coast of Marie Byrd Land, and extends from Frostman Glacier to the west and Cape Burks to the east, at the western end of McDonald Heights. Hull Glacier flows in a northwest direction into the bay between Lynch Point and Mount Grey in the Erickson Bluffs. In the northeast of the bay, Garfield Glacier enters the bay between Cox Point, the Erickson Bluffs and Dee Nunatak to the southwest, and the Rhodes Icefall and Peden Cliffs to the northeast. Perkins Glacier enters the bay to the north of Peden Cliffs. Features Frostman Glacier . A broad, low gradie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McDonald Heights
The McDonald Heights () are broad, mainly snow-covered heights about long and rising over between Cape Burks and Morris Head on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The heights are bounded southward by Hull Glacier, Kirkpatrick Glacier and Johnson Glacier. Discovery and name The McDonald Heights were photographed from aircraft of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–1941. They were observed and partially mapped from during February 1962, and were mapped in detail by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1965. The heights were named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Captain Edwin A. McDonald, United States Navy, Deputy Commander of the United States Naval Support Force, Antarctica, in 1962, and Commander of the Task Unit that explored this coast aboard ''Glacier'' in February 1962. Location The McDonald Heights extend east from Cape Burks, the easternmost point of Hull Bay, along the north side of Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull Glacier
The Hull Glacier () is a glacier, about long, flowing northwest between Mount Giles and Mount Gray into Hull Bay, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovery and name The Hull Glacier was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS; 1939–41) and was named for Cordell Hull, the United States Secretary of State. Location The Hull Glacier flows in a northwest direction to Hull Bay on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. It passes Smoot Rock, Frost Cliff and Mount Steinfeld, which lie to the north. West of Mount Steinfeld it is joined from the right by Kirkpatrick Glacier, which flows down from Strawn Pass to the south of McDonald Heights. The combined glacier flows past the Erickson Bluffs, which lie to the northeast, and is joined from the left by Rubey Glacier. It passes Miller Spur on the southeast and enters Hull Bay just east of Lynch Point. Features Smoot Rock . An isolated rock lying eastward of the head of Hull Glacier, about east-southeast of Mount Stei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erickson Bluffs
The McDonald Heights () are broad, mainly snow-covered heights about long and rising over between Cape Burks and Morris Head on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The heights are bounded southward by Hull Glacier, Kirkpatrick Glacier and Johnson Glacier. Discovery and name The McDonald Heights were photographed from aircraft of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–1941. They were observed and partially mapped from during February 1962, and were mapped in detail by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1965. The heights were named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Captain Edwin A. McDonald, United States Navy, Deputy Commander of the United States Naval Support Force, Antarctica, in 1962, and Commander of the Task Unit that explored this coast aboard ''Glacier'' in February 1962. Location The McDonald Heights extend east from Cape Burks, the easternmost point of Hull Bay, along the north side of Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th century. The territory lies in West Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean portion of the Antarctic or Southern Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W. The inclusion of the area between the Rockefeller Plateau and Eights Coast is based upon Byrd's exploration. Overview Because of its remoteness, even by Antarctic standards, most of Marie Byrd Land (the portion east of 150°W) has not been claimed by any sovereign state. It is by far the largest single unclaimed territory on Earth, with an area of , including Eights Coast, immediately east of Marie Byrd Land. In 1939, United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has a presence in the Antarctica continent. Founded in 1959, the USAP manages all U.S. Research stations in Antarctica, scientific research and related Transport in Antarctica, logistics in Antarctica as well as aboard ships in the Southern Ocean. United States Antarctic Program The United States established the U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) in 1959—the name was later changed to the U.S. Antarctic Program—immediately following the success of the International Geophysical Year (IGY). Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has a Presidential Mandate to manage the United States Antarctic Program, through which it operates three year-round research stations and two research vessels, coordinates all U.S. science on the southernmost continent, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871July 23, 1955) was an American politician from Tennessee and the longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during most of World War II. Before that appointment, Hull represented Tennessee for two years in the United States Senate and 22 years in the House of Representatives. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations". Early life and education Cordell Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, Tennessee, which is now part of Pickett County, Tennessee, but was then part of Overton County. He was the third of the five sons of William Paschal Hull (1840–1923) and Mary Elizabeth Hull (née Riley) (1841–1903). His brothers were named Orestes (1868), Sanadius (1870), Wyoming (1875), and Roy (1881). According t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Secretary Of State
The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The secretary of state serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all foreign affairs matters. The secretary carries out the president's foreign policies through the U.S Department of State, which includes the Foreign Service, Civil Service, and U.S. Agency for International Development. The office holder is the second-highest-ranking member of the president's cabinet, after the vice president, and ranks fourth in the presidential line of succession; first amongst cabinet secretaries. Created in 1789 with Thomas Jefferson as its first office holder, the secretary of state represents the United States to foreign countries, and is therefore considered analogous to a secretary or minister of foreign affairs in other countries. The secretary of state is nominated by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60th parallel south, 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. With a size of , it is the second-smallest of the five principal oceanic divisions, smaller than the Pacific Ocean, Pacific, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic and Indian Ocean, Indian oceans, and larger than the Arctic Ocean. The maximum depth of the Southern Ocean, using the definition that it lies south of 60th parallel, was surveyed by the Five Deeps Expedition in early February 2019. The expedition's multibeam sonar team identified the deepest point at 60° 28' 46"S, 025° 32' 32"W, with a depth of . The expedition leader and chief submersible pilot Victor Vescovo, has proposed naming this deepest point the "Factorian Deep", based on the name of the crewed submersible ''DSV Limiting Factor'', in which he successfully visited the bottom for the first time on February 3, 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Grey
Mount Grey (officially Mount Grey / Maukatere) is a mountain west of Amberley in New Zealand. It is named after Sir George Grey who was governor of New Zealand when English surveyors climbed it in 1849. In Te Reo Māori, the mountain is called Maukatere, 'floating mountain', from where the spirits of the dead leave on the long journey to Cape Reinga. Maukatere is a significant mountain for the Kaiapoi-based Ngāi Tūāhuriri, a hapū (subtribe) of Ngāi Tahu. Maukatere marked the inland boundary of the Crown purchase of the Canterbury and Otago area recorded in " Kemp's Deed" in 1848. In 1998, the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 changed the official name of the mountain to Mount Grey / Maukatere. References Grey Grey (more frequent in British English) or gray (more frequent in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a cloud-covered s ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kontor Cliffs
A ''kontor'' (also Kontor; ) was a major foreign trading post of the Hanseatic League. Kontors were legal entities established in a foreign city (i.e. a city that did not belong to the Hanseatic League), with a degree of legal autonomy. Most kontors were also enclaves. They were located in London (the Steelyard), Bruges (Kontor of Bruges, later moved to Antwerp), Bergen (Bryggen), and Novgorod ( Peterhof). Smaller Hanseatic trading posts were called ''factorien'', i.e., factories. The kontors were established as corporations or guilds of senior merchants from trade guilds. The main reason to found them was security. The Peterhof in Novgorod was founded first, in the early 13th century, the kontor of Bruges and Bryggen in Bergen were founded last. They were subordinated to the decisions of the ''Hansetag'' (Hanseatic diet) in the mid 14th century. In addition to the ''kontore'', there were less important trading posts. The ''vitten'' at the Scanian herring fairs were not as import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
