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Mount Crowder
The Monteath Hills () are a group of mountains in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica, bounded by Jutland Glacier, Midway Glacier, Pearl Harbor Glacier, and Plata Glacier. The group includes Mount Crowder, Mount Tararua ( high), and Mount Holdsworth. The hills were named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1983, after Colin Monteath, a field operations officer with the Antarctic Division of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Location The Monteath Hills are bounded by the Plata Glacier to the northwest, Pearl Harbor Glacier to the south, Jutland Glacier to the northeast and Midway Glacier to the southeast. The Saxby Range is to the east of the Midway Glacier. The Millen Range lies to the south west. Features Mount Crowder . A prominent mountain, high, located northeast of Mount Tararua. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after Queen Victoria. The rocky promontory of Minna Bluff is often regarded as the southernmost point of Victoria Land, and separates the Scott Coast to the north from the Hillary Coast of the Ross Dependency to the south. The region includes ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains and the McMurdo Dry Valleys (the highest point being Mount Abbott in the Northern Foothills), and the flatlands known as the Labyrinth. The Mount Melbourne is an active volcano in Victoria Land. Early explorers of Victoria Land include James Clark Ross and Douglas Mawson. In 1979, scientists discovered a group of 309 meteorites A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition
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Advisory Committee On Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established in 1943 as the Special Committee on Antarctic Names (SCAN). It became the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1947. Fred G. Alberts was Secretary of the Committee from 1949 to 1980. By 1959, a structured nomenclature was reached, allowing for further exploration, structured mapping of the region and a unique naming system. A 1990 ACAN gazeeter of Antarctica listed 16,000 names. Description The United States does not recognise territorial boundaries within Antarctica, so ACAN assigns names to features anywhere within the continent, in consultation with other national nomenclature bodies where appropriate, as defined by the Antarctic Treaty System. The research and staff support for the ACAN is provided by the United States Geolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of its active battle fleet alone exceeding the next 13 navies combined, including 11 allies or partner nations of the United States as of 2015. It has the highest combined battle fleet tonnage (4,635,628 tonnes as of 2019) and the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with eleven in service, two new carriers under construction, and five other carriers planned. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the United States Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 290 deployable combat vessels and more than 2,623 operational aircraft . The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during the American Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization's work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879. The USGS is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior; it is that department's sole scientific agency. The USGS employs approximately 8,670 people and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The USGS also has major offices near Lakewood, Colorado, at the Denver Federal Center, and Menlo Park, California. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on the occasion of its hundredth an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millen Range
The Millen Range () is a prominent northwest–southeast trending mountain range, located west of the Cartographers Range in the Victory Mountains of Antarctica. Peaks in the range include Inferno, O'Donnell, Omega, Le Couteur, Head, Cirque, Gless, Turret and Crosscut, and Mount Aorangi. It was named by the New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition (NZFMCAE) of 1962–63, for John M. Millen John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Seco ..., leader of the expedition. References Mountain ranges of Victoria Land Borchgrevink Coast {{BorchgrevinkCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxby Range
The Saxby Range () is a broad mountain range, rising to , in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is bounded by Jutland Glacier, Tucker Glacier, Pearl Harbor Glacier, and Midway Glacier. Name The Saxby Range was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1982 after Eric Saxby, field leader and coordinator of NZ projects during the International Northern Victoria Land Project, 1981–82. Location The Bertalan Peak is in a block between the Jutland Glacier and McKellar Glacier to the west, Pearl Harbor Glacier to the south, Tucker Glacier to the east and north. It is drained to the south by Summers Glacier and to the west by Montecchi Glacier. Features include Boss Peak and Bridwell Peak in the north, Mount Hazlett and Latino Peak in the southeast. Features Boss Peak . An isolated black peak high at the east side of the terminus of Jutland Glacier, north-northeast of Thomson Peak, in the northwest part of the Victory Mountains. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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C7, C07 or C-7 may refer to: Vehicles (including military) * C-7 Caribou, a military transport aircraft * AEG C.VII, a World War I German armed reconnaissance aircraft * AGO C.VII, a World War I German reconnaissance aircraft * Albatros C.VII, a World War I German military reconnaissance aircraft * C-7, a United States Navy C class blimp and the first airship inflated with helium * Chevrolet Corvette (C7), the seventh generation of a sports car made by General Motors * Fokker C.VII, a 1928 Dutch reconnaissance seaplane * HMS ''C7'', a British Royal Navy C-class submarine * Sauber C7, a 1983 Group C prototype race car * USS ''Cincinnati'' (C-7), a United States Navy protected cruiser Science * Caldwell 7 (NGC 2403), a spiral galaxy in Camelopardalis Technology * Nokia C7-00, a touch screen mobile from Nokia * VIA C7, an IA-32 central processing unit by VIA Technologies * C7, an incandescent light bulb of the size typically used in nightlights and Christmas lighting usually 2 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victory Mountains
The Victory Mountains () is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea. The division between these mountains and the Concord Mountains (to the NW) is less precise but apparently lies in the vicinity of Thomson Peak. A Ross Sea aspect of the mountains was first obtained by early British expeditions of Ross, Borchgrevink, Scott and Shackleton. The mapping of the interior mountains was largely done from air photos taken by the U.S. Navy and surveys undertaken by New Zealand and American parties in the 1950s and 1960s. So named by the NZGSAE 1957-58, because of the proximity of this group to the Admiralty Mountains, and with the intention that many of the topographic features would be named for celebrated victories, especially naval victories. Features * Aldridge Peak * Baker Glacier * Barker Range * Benighted Pass * Bertalan Peak * Borchgrevink Glacier * Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Department Of Scientific And Industrial Research
The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) is a now-defunct government science agency in New Zealand, founded in 1926 and broken into Crown Research Institutes in 1992. Foundation DSIR was founded in 1926 by Ernest Marsden after calls from Ernest Rutherford for government to support education and research and on the back of the Imperial Economic Conference in London in October and November 1923, when various colonies discussed setting up such departments. It initially received funding from sources such as the Empire Marketing Board. The initial plans also included a new agricultural college, to be jointly founded by Auckland and Victoria University Colleges, Palmerston North was chosen as the site for this and it grew to become Massey University. Structure DSIR initially had five divisions: * Grasslands in Palmerston North * Plant Diseases in Auckland * Entomology, attached to the Cawthron Institute in Nelson * Soil Survey (later Soil Bureau) in Taita * Agro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica. This committee works in collaboration with similar place-naming authorities in Australia, Great Britain and the United States to reach concurrence on each decision. The NZ-APC committee was established in 1956. Names attributed by the committee * Alberich Glacier, named after Alberich, king of the elves and chief of the Nibelungen * Arena Saddle, named in conjunction with Arena Valley * Brawhm Pass, named after the six party members of the University of New South Wales expeditions of 1964–65 and 1966–67 * Caliper Cove, named for descriptive features * Canada Stream, named in conjunction with Canada Glacier * Cape Crossfire, named for descriptive features * Cuneiform Cliffs, named for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
