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Strange Glacier
Gardner Inlet () is a large, ice-filled inlet at the southwest side of Bowman Peninsula, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location Gardner inlet is between the Lassiter Coast and the Orville Coast of the Weddell Sea to the east. It is at the southeast end of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is defined as a line between Cape Adams at the mouth of the inlet and a point on the mainland coast south of Eklund Islands. It therefore lies on the boundary between Palmer Land to the north and Ellsworth Land to the south. Gardner Inlet is separated from Hansen Inlet to the southwest by Cape Schlossbach. Both inlets are ice-covered, and join the Ronne Ice Shelf on the coast. The Scaife Mountains are to the east of Gardner Inlet, separated from the Latady Mountains to the northeast by the Ketchum Glacier, which flows into the inlet from the west. The Strange Glacier joins the Ketchum Glacier from the north near its mouth in the inlet south of Mount Austin. The We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orville Coast
Orville Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying west of Ronne Ice Shelf between Cape Adams and Cape Zumberge. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, under Ronne, who named this coast for Captain Howard T. Orville, USN, Head of the Naval Aerological Service, who was largely responsible for formulating the RARE meteorological program. The name "Orville Coast" is considered a more useful reference than "Orville Escarpment," the name originally applied for this area. See also *Jaeger Hills Coasts of Palmer Land Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf {{PalmerLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latady Mountains
The Latady Mountains () are a group of mountains rising west of Gardner Inlet and between Wetmore Glacier and Ketchum Glacier, in southeastern Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Latady Mountains are in the southeast of Palmer Land. They are bounded by the Wetmore Glacier to the north and east, and the Ketchum Glacier to the south. A featureless expanse of ice extends to the west as far as the Sky-Hi Nunataks. The Rare Range is to the northeast, and beyond that the Guettard Range. Features, from north to south, include Mount Aaron, McLaughlin Peak, Mount Robertson, Crain Ridge, Strange Glacier, Mount Hyatt, Mount Wood, Mount Terrazas and Schmitt Mesa. The Rare Range with Mount Crowell and Mount Sumner is to the northeast. Mount Poster and Mount Tenney are to the west. Exploration and name The Latady Mountains were seen from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) on 21 November 1947 and partially surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prehn Peninsula
The Scaife Mountains () is a group of mountains rising west of Prehn Peninsula and between the Ketchum Glacier and Ueda Glacier, at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. Location The Scaife Mountains are in Ellsworth Land. They are southwest of the Latady Mountains and east of the Sweeney Mountains. They are bounded by the Ketchum Glacier to the north, which flows into Gardner Inlet, and the Ueda Glacier to the south, which flows into Hansen Inlet. The inlets are both ice-bound and join the Ronne Ice Shelf on the shore of the Weddell Sea. Features include Mount Macnowski in the north and Mount Mount Brundage and Mount Terwileger in the south. Nearby features to the east include Prehn Peninsula, Lamboley Peak and Cape Schlossbach. Nearby features to the southeast include McCaw Ridge, Mount McKibben, Dodson Peninsula and Cape Cox. Discovery and name The Scaife Mountains were discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) under Finn Ronne, 1947–48, who named these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nantucket Inlet
The Smith Peninsula () is an ice-covered, "dog-legged" peninsula long and wide, extending in an easterly direction between Keller Inlet and Nantucket Inlet from the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Smith Peninsula is in southeast Palmer Land, on the Lassiter Coast of the Weddell Sea. It lies between Nantucket Inlet to the southwest and Keller Inlet to the northeast. Johnston Glacier flows past the west of the peninsula to Nantucket Inlet. Barcus Glacier flows past the north of the peninsula to Keller Inlet. The Hutton Mountains are to the north of the peninsula. Cape Fiske is the easternmost point. Discovery and naming The Smith Peninsula was photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (USAS), and in 1947 by members of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) under Finn Ronne, who in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) charted it from the ground. It was named b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rare Range
The Latady Mountains () are a group of mountains rising west of Gardner Inlet and between Wetmore Glacier and Ketchum Glacier, in southeastern Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Latady Mountains are in the southeast of Palmer Land. They are bounded by the Wetmore Glacier to the north and east, and the Ketchum Glacier to the south. A featureless expanse of ice extends to the west as far as the Sky-Hi Nunataks. The Rare Range is to the northeast, and beyond that the Guettard Range. Features, from north to south, include Mount Aaron, McLaughlin Peak, Mount Robertson, Crain Ridge, Strange Glacier, Mount Hyatt, Mount Wood, Mount Terrazas and Schmitt Mesa. The Rare Range with Mount Crowell and Mount Sumner is to the northeast. Mount Poster and Mount Tenney are to the west. Exploration and name The Latady Mountains were seen from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) on 21 November 1947 and partially surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guettard Range
The Guettard Range () is a mountain range, long and wide, located northwest of Bowman Peninsula and between Johnston Glacier and Irvine Glacier, in the southeastern extremity of Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Guettard Range is in southeast Palmer Land, in the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. It runs in a south-southeast direction between the Irvine Glacier to the west and the Johnston Glacier to the east. It terminates in the Bowman Peninsula between Gardner Inlet and Nantucket Inlet on the Lassiter Coast of the Weddell Sea. The Latady Mountains are west of the Irvine Glacier, and the Hutton Mountains are east of the Johnson Glacier. The Playfair Mountains are to the northeast. A largely featureless ice field is to the northwest. Features of the range, from north to south, include Mount Laudon, Johnston Spur, Mount Owen, Kelsey Cliff, Mount Lampert and Mount Mull. Exploration and name The Guettard Range was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Resea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Geologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March 3, 1879, to study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The agency also makes maps of planets and moons, based on data from U.S. space probes. The sole scientific agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. It is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with major offices near Lakewood, Colorado; at the Denver Federal Center; and in NASA Research Park in California. In 2009, it employed about 8,670 people. The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world". The agency's previous slogan, adopted on its hundredth anniversary, was "Earth Science in the Pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Bureau Of Standards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical science laboratory programs that include nanoscale science and technology, engineering, information technology, neutron research, material measurement, and physical measurement. From 1901 to 1988, the agency was named the National Bureau of Standards. History Background The Articles of Confederation, ratified by the colonies in 1781, provided: The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states—fixing the standards of weights and measures throughout the United States. Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1789, granted these powers to the new Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irvine Clifton Gardner
Dr. Irvine Clifton Gardner (18891972) was an American physicist known for his contributions to optics and aerial photography. Biography Gardner was born in 1889. In 1921, he joined the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), and in 1950, became chief of the Division of Optics and Meteorology. He headed a joint NBS-National Geographic Society expedition to Kazakhstan to observe the solar eclipse of June 19, 1936. The team took used a four-meter eclipse camera with a 23-centimeter astrographic lens to take the first natural color photographs of a solar eclipse. The next year Gardner joined a National Geographic-U.S. Navy expedition to the Canton Islands to photograph the solar eclipse of June 8, 1937. He retired from the Bureau of Standards in 1959. Gardner was the president of the Optical Society of America in 1958. He was also noted for his work in the field of spectroscopy. Awards and honors In 1954, he was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the Optical Society of America; he was m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finn Ronne
Finn Ronne (December 20, 1899 – January 12, 1980) was a Norwegian-born U.S. citizen and Antarctic explorer. Background Finn Ronne was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. His father, Martin Rønne (1861–1932), was a polar explorer who served in Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to the South Pole. Ronne received his education in engineering at Horten Technical College. In 1923 Finn Ronne immigrated to the U.S. and gained citizenship in 1929. After working at Westinghouse Electric Corporation for some years, he took part in two of Richard E. Byrd's expeditions to the South Pole, and in 1939 Ronne served as Byrd's executive officer helping discover one thousand miles of new coastline. After serving several years in the United States Navy, gaining the rank of captain, Ronne returned to Antarctica in the 1940s, with support of the American Geographical Society as the leader of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. From 1946 to 1948 his team mapped and explore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored expedition from the United States and explored and mapped the last unknown coastline on earth and determined that the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea were not connected. The expedition included Isaac Schlossbach, as second in command, who was to have Cape Schlossbach named after him. The expedition, based out of Stonington Island was the first to take women to over-winter. Ronne's wife, Edith Ronne was correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance for expedition and the chief pilot Darlington took his wife. Partial listing of discoveries * Mount Abrams – Named for Talbert Abrams, noted photogrammetric engineer * Mount Becker – Named for Ralph A. Becker, legal counsel who assisted in the formation of RARE * Mount Brun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
