Mount Buckley () is an ice-free
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-d ...
, high, which is the central and highest summit of
Buckley Island, a mountain
massif
A massif () is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits (e.g. France's Massif Central). In mountaineering literature, ''massif'' is frequently used to denote the main mass of an ...
at the head of
Beardmore Glacier
The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being long and having a width of .
It descends about from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf and is bordered by the Commonwealth Range of the Queen ...
. It was discovered by the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09
The ''Nimrod'' Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent. Its main target, among a range of ...
, and named for
George Buckley of
New Zealand
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, a supporter of the expedition.
Further reading
* David J. Cantrill, Imogen Poole,
The Vegetation of Antarctica Through Geological Time', P 8
* M.J. Hambrey, P.F. Barker, P.J. Barrett, V. Bowman, B. Davies, J.L. Smellie, M. Trantern,
Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes', P 68
* Nicholas O'Flaherty,
Finding the oldest forest fossils in Antarctica - 280 million years old!', 1 February 2018
External links
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USGS
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website
Mount Buckleyon the Antarctica
New Zealand
New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
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SCAR
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References
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Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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