The Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition took place first from 1962/63 and then again from 1964/65.
[Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Name Details: Matador Mountain](_blank)
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/ref> The expedition, led by F. Alton Wade, was sponsored by Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public university, public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the flagship instit ...
). It explored areas of Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
.
Exploration
Areas explored during and named by the expedition include:
* Matador Mountain– Named in honor of the Texas Tech student body, which was originally known as the Matadors.
* Red Raider Rampart– Named in honor of the Texas Tech student body, which is now known as the Red Raiders.Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Name Details: Red Raider Rampart
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*Shanklin Glacier
Ramsey Glacier () is a glacier about long in Antarctica. It originates in the Bush Mountains near the edge of the polar plateau and flows north through the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica to the Ross Ice Shelf eastward of Den Hartog Peak.
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– Named in honor of CWO David M. Shanklin, USA, of the U.S. Army Aviation Detachment which supported the expedition.
* Ringed Nunatak, named for the ring of moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and Rock (geology), rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a gla ...
that completely surrounds the nunatak.
* Shenk Peak– Named in honor of John C. Shenk, who was a Texas Tech graduate student and member of the expedition.
*Simplicity Hill
Mount Finley () is a prominent mountain, high, on the ridge which extends south from Mount Wade, located south-southwest of Mount Oliver in the Queen Maud Mountains.
Mount Finley was named by Rear Admiral Byrd for John H. Finley, President of ...
– Named because of the ease with which they were able to approach the feature, and because of the relative simplicity of its geologic nature.
*Yeats Glacier
Shackleton Glacier () is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from wide, descending from the Antarctic Plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount ...
– Named for Vestal L. "Pappy" Yeats, a Texas Tech faculty member and participant in the expedition in both 1962/63 and 1964/65.
References
External links
Antarctic Collections of the Paleontology Division at the Museum of Texas Tech University
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Yeats recalls South Pole expeditions, war, Depressions and teaching at Tech
''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'', October 28, 2008
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