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Tinker Glacier Tongue
The Tinker Glacier () is a long glacier in Antarctica, draining the central part of the Southern Cross Mountains and flowing southeast into Wood Bay, on the coast of Victoria Land. Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1962–63, for Lieutenant Colonel Ron Tinker, leader at Scott Base during that season. Geography Tinker Glacier forms in the Southern Cross Mountains to the south of the Schulte Hills, and flows south past Mount Jiracek to the west, running parallel to Aviator Glacier to the east. Burns Glacier joins from the west. The Clausnitzer Glacier joins from the west before the Harrow Peaks. Tinker glacier forms the Tinker Glacier Tongue when it flows past Cape Johnson into Wood Bay of the Ross Sea. Features Named features, from north to south, include: Burns Glacier . A tributary glacier, long, flowing north along the east side of Pinckard Table The Random Hills () are a group of rugged hills in Victoria L ... [...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 78th parallel south, 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 Victoria of the United Kingdom, 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. History Early explorers of Victoria Land include James Clark Ross and Douglas Mawson. In 1979, scientists discovered a group of 309 Meteorite, meteorites in Antarctica, some of which were found near the Allan Hills in Victoria Land. The meteorites appeared to have undergone little change since they were formed at what scientists believe was the birth of the Solar System. In 1981, Lichen, lichens fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Bay
Wood Bay () is a large bay which is bounded by Cape Johnson and Aviator Glacier Tongue on the north, and Cape Washington on the south, along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, and named by him for Lieutenant James F.L. Wood of the ship HMS ''Erebus''. Geography Wood Bay is on the west coast of the Ross Sea. It is delimited to the north by Hayes Head on Cape Johnson. The Aviator Glacier Tongue extends into the sea between Wood Bay and Lady Newnes Bay to the north. The Tinker Glacier Tongue extends into the bay to the east of Cape Johnson and Kay Island, and to the west of Harrow Peaks in the Random Hills. Further south is Edmonson Point, where there is an Adélie penguin rookery, Willows Nunatak and Cape Washington, which delimited the south end of the bay. Mount Melbourne dominates the southern part of the bay. Features Named features of the bay, from north to south, include: Hayes Head . A prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Cross Mountains
Southern Cross Mountains is the name applied to the group of ranges lying between the Mariner Glacier and Priestley Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is southwest of the Mountaineer Range, southeast of the Mesa Range and northeast of the Deep Freeze Range. Exploration and naming Seaward parts of this area were first viewed by Ross in 1841 and subsequently by expeditions led by Carstens Borchgrevink, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Richard Evelyn Byrd. The precise mapping of its overall features was accomplished from United States Navy air photographs and surveys by New Zealand and American parties in the 1950s and 1960s. The mountains were named by the northern party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1965–66. Location The Southern Cross Mountains extend north from Burns Glacier, with the Campbell Glacier to the west and the Aviator Glacier to the east. The two glaciers are fed by the Half-ration Névé to the north of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition
The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Features named by the expeditions 1957–1958 expedition The 1957–1958 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier. Other features named include: * Carter Ridge * Felsite Island * Halfway Nunatak * Hedgehog Island * Moraine Ridge 1958–1959 expedition * Cadwalader Beach * Cape Hodgson * Carter Ridge * Isolation Point * Mountaineer Range * Mount Aurora * Mount Hayward * Mount Henderson (White Island) * Mount Bird. 1960–1961 expedition * Deverall Island * Lonewolf Nunataks 1961–1962 expedition * Aurora Heights * The Boil * Ford Spur * Graphite Peak * Half Century Nunatak * Half Dome Nunatak * Hump Passage * Last Cache Nunatak * Lookout Dome * Montgomerie Glacier * Mount Fyfe * Mount Macdonald * Sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Base
Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. It was named in honour of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica. The base was set up as support to field research and the centre for research into earth sciences, and now conducts research in many fields, operated by Antarctica New Zealand. The base is from the larger U.S. McMurdo Station via Willy Field road, the main road to Williams Field. History Scott Base was originally constructed in support of the UK inspired and privately managed Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE). The New Zealand government provided support for the TAE and also for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) project of 1957, five of whose members were attached to the Expedition. In February 1956, 10 months before the TAE and IGY parties were due to head to the Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aviator Glacier
The Aviator Glacier () is a major valley glacier in Antarctica that is over long and wide, descending generally southward from the plateau of Victoria Land along the west side of Mountaineer Range, and entering Lady Newnes Bay between Cape Sibbald and Hayes Head where it forms a floating tongue. Exploration and naming The glacier was photographed from the air by Captain W.M. Hawkes, United States Navy, on the historic first flight from New Zealand to McMurdo Sound on December 17, 1955. An attempt to reconnoiter it by helicopter and to land a party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) on it had to be abandoned when USS ''Glacier'' was damaged in pressure ice in December 1958. It was named by NZGSAE, 1958–59, as a tribute to the hazardous work of pilots and other airmen in Antarctic exploratory and scientific operations. Geography The Aviator Glacier forms on the plateau of Victoria Land and flows in a generally southward direction along t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrow Peaks
The Random Hills () are a group of rugged hills in Victoria Land, Antarctica. They are bounded on the west by Campbell Glacier and on the east by Tinker Glacier and Wood Bay. They are centered about ) north-northwest of Mount Melbourne. Exploration and name The Random Hills were named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1966–67, because of the random orientation of the ridges which comprise the feature. Geology The Random Hills are part of the Melbourne Volcanic Province of the McMurdo Volcanic Group. K–Ar or Rb–Sr dating has given ages of 12.63 ± 0.17 million years and 12.43 ± 0.16 million years for Random Hills hawaiite. Location The Random Hills lie between the Tinker Glacier Tongue to the east, Baker Rocks on the Mount Melbourne peninsula to the south, and Bier Point and the Campbell Glacier to the west. The Burns Glacier separates the hills from Pinckard Table to the east. The Clausnitzer Glacier flows ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Johnson
Wood Bay () is a large bay which is bounded by Cape Johnson and Aviator Glacier Tongue on the north, and Cape Washington on the south, along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, and named by him for Lieutenant James F.L. Wood of the ship HMS ''Erebus''. Geography Wood Bay is on the west coast of the Ross Sea. It is delimited to the north by Hayes Head on Cape Johnson. The Aviator Glacier Tongue extends into the sea between Wood Bay and Lady Newnes Bay to the north. The Tinker Glacier Tongue extends into the bay to the east of Cape Johnson and Kay Island, and to the west of Harrow Peaks in the Random Hills. Further south is Edmonson Point, where there is an Adélie penguin rookery, Willows Nunatak and Cape Washington, which delimited the south end of the bay. Mount Melbourne dominates the southern part of the bay. Features Named features of the bay, from north to south, include: Hayes Head . A prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Sea
The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who visited this area in 1841. To the west of the sea lies Ross Island and Victoria Land, to the east Roosevelt Island and Edward VII Peninsula in Marie Byrd Land, while the southernmost part is covered by the Ross Ice Shelf, and is about from the South Pole. Its boundaries and area have been defined by the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research as having an area of . The circulation of the Ross Sea is dominated by a wind-driven ocean gyre and the flow is strongly influenced by three submarine ridges that run from southwest to northeast. The circumpolar deep water current is a relatively warm, salty and nutrient-rich water mass that flows onto the continental shelf at certain locations. The Ross Sea is covered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckard Table
The Random Hills () are a group of rugged hills in Victoria Land, Antarctica. They are bounded on the west by Campbell Glacier and on the east by Tinker Glacier and Wood Bay. They are centered about ) north-northwest of Mount Melbourne. Exploration and name The Random Hills were named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1966–67, because of the random orientation of the ridges which comprise the feature. Geology The Random Hills are part of the Melbourne Volcanic Province of the McMurdo Volcanic Group. K–Ar or Rb–Sr dating has given ages of 12.63 ± 0.17 million years and 12.43 ± 0.16 million years for Random Hills hawaiite. Location The Random Hills lie between the Tinker Glacier Tongue to the east, Baker Rocks on the Mount Melbourne peninsula to the south, and Bier Point and the Campbell Glacier to the west. The Burns Glacier separates the hills from Pinckard Table to the east. The Clausnitzer Glacier flows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
