The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being 200 km (125 mi) long and having a width of 40 km (25 mi)...
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Queen Maud Mountains (section Beardmore–Shackleton)
features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to...
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extremity of the Commonwealth Range, and then northwest to enter Beardmore Glacier at Ranfurly Point. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition...
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northwest between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition...
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continent of Antarctica. The range borders the eastern side of Beardmore Glacier from Keltie Glacier to the Ross Ice Shelf. The range is southeast of the Queen...
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Queen Alexandra Range (section Major glaciers)
miles (190 km; 120 mi) long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf. The range is in the...
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for the above company Beardmore, Ontario, a small community in Northern Ontario Beardmore Glacier, a glacier in Antarctica Beardmore Relics, Viking Age artifacts...
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Terra Nova Expedition (section Beardmore ascent)
Sound, Shackleton had crossed the Great Ice Barrier, discovered the Beardmore Glacier route to the Polar Plateau, and had struck out for the Pole. He had...
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people. It was founded and owned by William Beardmore, later Lord Invernairn, after whom the Beardmore Glacier was named. The Parkhead Forge, in the east...
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Dominion Range (redirect from Rutkowski Glacier)
35 mi) long, forming a prominent salient at the juncture of the Beardmore and Mill glaciers in Antarctica. The range is part of the Queen Maud Mountains...
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series of supply depots across the Ross Ice Shelf to the foot of the Beardmore Glacier. These depots would be essential for the transcontinental party's...
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(Queensland), a rock outcrop in Australia Lizard Point, Antarctica, on the Beardmore Glacier "Lizard Point" (composition), an instrumental by Brian Eno, on 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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lies between Keltie Glacier, flowing from the east, and Mill Glacier flowing from the south and converging with Beardmore Glacier. Ranfurly Point is its...
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(180 km) from the Pole. En route, the South Pole party discovered the Beardmore Glacier, named after Shackleton's patron, and the four men became the first...
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and Mount Bowers, rising above the ice at the middle of the head of Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition...
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overlooking Beardmore Glacier in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. They are bounded on the north by Berwick Glacier, and on the south by Swinford Glacier. The...
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faulting has occurred. Coal was first recorded in Antarctica near the Beardmore Glacier by Frank Wild on the Nimrod Expedition in 1907, and low-grade coal...
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Range, Antarctica. They are bounded by the Beardmore Glacier, Berwick Glacier, Moody Glacier and Bingley Glacier. The Adams Mountains were discovered by...
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Unlike the big “outlet” glaciers such as the Beardmore, Shackleton and Liv, the Axel Heiberg is in effect an alpine glacier, cut off from the polar plateau...
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the Barrier, 120 statute miles (190 km) up the heavily crevassed Beardmore Glacier to an altitude of 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above sea level, and then...
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Morris Heights (East Antarctica) (redirect from Beaver Glacier (Ross Ice Shelf))
Lennox-King Glacier, Mount Ida, Granite Pillars, Cape Allen, The Gateway and Mount Hope on the peninsula to the southeast at the mouth of Beardmore Glacier, and...
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William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn, DL (16 October 1856 – 9 April 1936), known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921, was a British...
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assumption that motors and animals could not ascend the crevassed Beardmore Glacier. Dog expert Cecil Meares was going to Siberia to select the dogs and...
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metres (8,790 ft) high, standing at the west side of Beardmore Glacier, just south of Hewson Glacier in the Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. It is easily...
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collected during the 1990–91 austral summer on Mount Kirkpatrick in the Beardmore Glacier region of the Transantarctic Mountains. The discovery was made by...
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that, in his experience, dogs would not have been able to ascend the Beardmore Glacier. With regards to the causes of the deaths of Scott and his companions...
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the Beardmore Glacier, the horses were shot and their flesh cached for food, while the dog teams turned back for base. At the top of the Beardmore Glacier...
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supply depots across the Great Ice Barrier from the Ross Sea to the Beardmore Glacier, along the polar route established by earlier Antarctic expeditions...
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or Law-Lennox-King glacier corridor. Its mouth is south of the Robb Glacier and west of the Beardmore Glacier. Lennox-King Glacier was named by the New...
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