The Edgeworth Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing south-southwestwards from the edge of
Detroit Plateau below
Wolseley Buttress
Larsen Inlet () is an inlet, formerly ice-filled, long in a north–south direction and wide, between Cape Longing and Cape Sobral along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Location
Larsen inlet is at the east end of the Nordenskjö ...
to the ice shelf west of
Sobral Peninsula,
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
, Antarctica.
Location
Edgeworth Glacier is in
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
on the
Nordenskjöld Coast
The Nordenskjöld Coast (64° 30' S 60° 30' W) is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, more specifically Graham Land, which is the top region of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is a thin, long ice sheet with an Alpine-style mountain chain. The coast ...
of the eastern
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
...
.
It flows south from the
Detroit Plateau, past the
Sobral Peninsula to the east to enter the Weddell Sea.
Mapping and name
The Edgeworth Glacier was mapped from surveys by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...
(FIDS) in 1960–61, and was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
(UK-APC) for
Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Richard Lovell Edgeworth (31 May 1744 – 13 June 1817) was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor. He had 22 children.
Biography
Edgeworth was born in Pierrepont Street, Bath, England, son of Richard Edgeworth senior, and great ...
, the British inventor of the "portable railway," the first
track-laying vehicle, in 1770.
Features
Bombardier Glacier
.
A glacier flowing southeast from the edge of Detroit Plateau, and through a deep trough to join Edgeworth Glacier.
Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61).
Named by UK-APC for
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Joseph-Armand Bombardier (; April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was a snowmobile.
Biography
Born in Valcourt, Quebec, Joseph-Armand Bombard ...
, Canadian engineer who developed the "
Snowmobile
A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine (chiefly Alaskan), motor sled (chiefly Canadian), motor sledge, skimobile, snow scooter, or simply a sled is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.
Their engines normally ...
", one of the earliest successful over-snow vehicles (1926-37).
Kavlak Peak
A peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated in the west part of a narrow rocky ridge projecting eastwards into the upper course of Dinsmoor Glacier, west-southwest of Darzalas Peak and northwest of Mount Elliott.
Named after the settlement of Kavlak in Northern Bulgaria.
Darzalas Peak
A rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated between Bombardier Glacier and Dinsmoor Glacier, north of Mount Elliott and east-northeast of Kavlak Peak.
Named after the Thracian god
Darzalas
Derzelas (''Darzalas'') was a Dacian or Thracian chthonic god of abundance and the underworld, health and human spirit's vitality.
Darzalas was the god of Hellenistic period Odessos (modern Varna) and was frequently depicted on its coinage from th ...
.
Mount Elliott
.
Conspicuous mountain, high, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing northwest of
Cape Sobral
The Sobral Peninsula () is a high and mainly ice-covered peninsula in northern Graham Land, Antarctica.
The feature is long and wide and projects southward into the northern part of the Larsen Ice Shelf west of Larsen Inlet.
Location
The Sob ...
.
Charted in 1947 by the FIDS and named for F.K. Elliott, leader of the FIDS base at
Hope Bay Hope Bay may refer to:
* Hope Bay, Antarctica
Hope Bay (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Bahía Esperanza'') () is a bay long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound.
Location
Hope Bay is in Graham ...
in 1947 and 1948.
Dinsmoor Glacier
.
A glacier flowing east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, joining Edgeworth Glacier to the northeast of Mount Elliott.
Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61).
Named by UK-APC for Charles Dinsmoor of Warren, PA, who invented the "endless tracking machine, a forerunner of modern tracked vehicles, in 1886; first manufactured commercially by Holt Manufacturing Co. of Stockton, CA, in 1906.
Nodwell Peaks
.
Two outstanding peaks, less than apart, on the east side of Edgeworth Glacier.
Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61).
Named by UK-APC after Robin-Nodwell Mfg. Ltd. of Calgary, Canada, makers of Nodwell tracked carriers, used in Antarctica since 1960.
Paramun Buttress
.
An ice-covered buttress rising to high on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau.
Situated between tributaries to Edgeworth Glacier, west-northwest of Kopriva Peak, north-northeast of Trave Peak and south of Volov Peak on Davis Coast.
Steep and partly ice-free west, south and east slopes.
Named after the settlement of
Paramun
Paramun () is a village in Tran Municipality, Pernik Province. It is located in western Bulgaria, 66 km from the capital city of Sofia and 14 km from the town of Tran, near the Serbian border. The toponym is of Byzantine Greek origin, f ...
in Western Bulgaria.
Trave Peak
.
A partly ice-covered peak rising to high in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau.
Situated south-southwest of Paramun Buttress, west by south of Chipev Nunatak and northeast of Darzalas Peak.
Precipitous and partly ice-free west and north slopes.
Overlooking Edgeworth Glacier to the north, east and south.
Named after the settlement of Trave in Southern Bulgaria.
Chipev Nunatak
.
A narrow, rocky hill extending in north–south direction and rising to high on the east side of Edgeworth Glacier.
Situated south of Kopriva Peak, northwest of Dolen Peak, east by north of Trave Peak and southeast of Paramun Buttress.
Named after Nesho Chipev (b. 1953), biologist at St. Kliment Ohridski base during the 1994/95 and subsequent seasons.
Rott Inlet
.
Also known as Mundraga Bay (Bulgaria), named on 16 February 2011 after the medieval fortress of Mundraga in Northeastern Bulgaria.
A bay between Cape Sobral and Fothergill Point, east of the Detroit Plateau.
The head of the bay is fed by Dinsmoor, Bombardier and Edgeworth glaciers.
Named on 12 March 2012 after Professor Helmut Rott, glaciologist at the
University of Innsbruck
The University of Innsbruck (; ) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669.
It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...
, for his work on the break up of the
Larsen Ice Shelf
The Larsen Ice Shelf is a long ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to Smith Peninsula. It is named after Captain Carl Anton Larsen, the master of the ...
.
Kopriva Peak
.
A rocky peak rising to high at the south extremity of Wolseley Buttress on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau.
Situated between Albone and Edgeworth Glaciers, southwest of Bolgar Buttress, northwest of Dolen Peak, northeast of Trave Peak and east-southeast of Paramun Buttress.
Surmounting Albone Glacier to the east and Edgeworth Glacier to the W.
Named after the settlement of Kopriva in Western Bulgaria.
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