The Amundsen Glacier (85°35′S 159°00′W / 85.583°S 159.000°W / -85.583; -159.000) is a major Antarctic glacier, about 7 to 11 km (4 to 6 nmi) wide and...
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Queen Maud Mountains (section Liv–Amundsen)
and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South...
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in the Queen Maud Mountains. The glacier was discovered in November 1911 by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, and named by him for Consul Axel...
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Thwaites Glaciers, which both flow into the Amundsen Sea, are two of Antarctica's largest five. Researchers reported that the flow of these glaciers increased...
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Quarles Range (category Amundsen Coast)
Cooper Glacier and Bowman Glacier and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf. Peaks in the range were first sighted by Captain Roald Amundsen in 1911...
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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (UK: /ˈɑːmʊndsən/, US: /-məns-/; Norwegian: [ˈrùːɑɫ ˈɑ̂mʉnsən] ; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer...
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Islands in Antarctica Brown Peaks, a series of low peaks surmounting the Amundsen Glacier in Antarctica Rudmose Brown Peak, a peak southwest of Mount Hurley...
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The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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Hays Mountains (category Amundsen Coast)
Antarctica, surmounting the divide between the lower portions of Amundsen Glacier and Scott Glacier and extending from the vicinity of Mount Thorne on the northwest...
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reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to the geographical south pole...
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Shelf. The Scott Glacier is one of a series of major glaciers flowing across the Transantarctic Mountains, with the Amundsen Glacier to the west and the...
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Glacier Byrd Glacier Nimrod Glacier Queen Alexandra Range Beardmore Glacier Taz Glacier Shackleton Glacier Liv Glacier Amundsen Glacier Scott Glacier Bush Mountains...
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Nilsen Plateau (category Amundsen Coast)
Plateau lies to the east of the upper Amundsen Glacier and north of the Rawson Mountains. The Bartlett Glacier forms on its southeast side. The Faulkner...
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American glaciologist Fredrik T. Thwaites. The glacier flows into Pine Island Bay, part of the Amundsen Sea, at surface speeds which exceed 2 kilometres...
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abyssal plain in the Southern Ocean Amundsen Bay Amundsen Coast Amundsen Glacier Amundsen Icefall Mount Amundsen Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, research...
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Between December 1911 and January 1912, both Roald Amundsen (leading his South Pole expedition) and Robert Falcon Scott (leading the Terra Nova Expedition)...
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Mount Amundsen is a nunatak lying east of Denman Glacier, about 11 nautical miles (20 km) northeast of Mount Sandow. It was discovered by the Western Base...
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Mount Takahe (redirect from Clausen Glacier)
volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea. It is a c. 30-kilometre-wide (19 mi) mountain with parasitic vents...
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Sverre Hassel (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
a visit to Amundsen's home in Svartskog. Mount Hassel: peak at the northeasternmost summit of the massif at the head of Amundsen Glacier, in the Queen...
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Oscar Wisting (category Amundsen's South Pole expedition)
the head of Amundsen Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains. "Oscar Wisting". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved May 1, 2017. Roald Amundsen: The South Pole...
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draining from Toney Mountain in an ENE direction to Amundsen Sea. A northern distributary, Kohler Glacier, drains to Dotson Ice Shelf but the main flow passes...
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Amundsen Coast is that portion of the coast to the south of the Ross Ice Shelf lying between Morris Peak, on the east side of Liv Glacier, and the west...
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Amundsen Land (Danish: Amundsens Land) or Amundsenland, is a peninsula in central North Greenland. It is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park...
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Medina Peaks (category Amundsen Coast)
parallels the coast at the head of Ross Ice Shelf, located east of Amundsen Glacier and midway between MacDonald Nunataks and O'Brien Peak. Mapped by USGS...
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1953. Pine Island Glacier is an Antarctic outflow glacier that flows into the Amundsen Sea. A study from 1998 concluded that the glacier thinned 3.5 m (11 ft)± 0...
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King Peninsula (redirect from Morelli Glacier)
between the Abbot Ice Shelf and Cosgrove Ice Shelf to terminate at the Amundsen Sea. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML...
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flowing into the Amundsen Sea are not protected from the ocean by large floating ice shelves. Also, although the surface of the glacier is above sea level...
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Terra Nova Expedition (section Amundsen's camp)
on 17 January 1912, where they found that a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's party of five died on the return...
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mountain, generally isolated from other high ground. Crags are formed when a glacier or ice sheet passes over an area that contains a particularly resistant...
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