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    The Axel Heiberg Glacier (85°25′S 163°00′W / 85.417°S 163.000°W / -85.417; -163.000) in Antarctica is a valley glacier, 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi)...
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    Axel Heiberg Island (Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᑦ ᓄᓈᑦ, Umingmat Nunaat) is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located in the Arctic...
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    Fram. This led to Heiberg's name being given to Axel Heiberg Island in Canada, the Axel Heiberg Glacier in Antarctica as well as Heiberg Islands in Siberia...
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    the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg Glacier and Strom Glacier. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee...
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  • Heiberg (judge) (1908–1988), Norwegian judge Axel Heiberg Glacier, Antarctica Axel Heiberg Island, Canada Heiberg Islands, Russia This disambiguation page...
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    Antarctica. Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these...
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    October 1911. In the course of their journey they discovered the Axel Heiberg Glacier, which provided their route to the polar plateau and ultimately to...
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    Scaife Glacier is located on Axel Heiberg Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut in the Canadian High Arctic. The Scaife Glacier is named after Sergeant...
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  • Cooper Glacier to the north. Further east, the range extends between Cooper Glacier, a tributary of Axel Heiberg Glacier to the north, and Bowman Glacier, another...
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  • Anton Heiberg (1878–1947), Norwegian stage instructor and theatre director Astrid Nøklebye Heiberg (1936–2020), Norwegian politician Axel Heiberg (1848–1932)...
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  • Amundsen and his team, who had chosen a route up the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier. It was on the way back to the Terra Nova expedition's base camp...
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    accumulation area of the glaciers of Axel Heiberg Island". Journal of Glaciology. 4: 302–313. Patterson, W.S.B. (1994). The Physics of Glaciers (3rd ed.). Oxford:...
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    geographic South Pole, using a route from the Bay of Whales and up the Axel Heiberg Glacier. One month later, the doomed Terra Nova Expedition reached the pole...
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    glacier in 1911, while Roald Amundsen crossed the range via the Axel Heiberg Glacier. Much of the range remained unexplored until the late 1940s and 1950s...
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    sledged southward across the shelf and discovered a route up the Axel Heiberg Glacier along this coast to reach the polar plateau. He was the first to...
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    sledges and 52 dogs. Using a route along the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier, they arrived at the edge of the Polar Plateau on 21 November after...
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    numbers. Published in the Glacier Atlas of Canada, the inventory identified 575 glaciers on Bylot Island and 1111 on Axel Heiberg Island. The following is...
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    Withrow Glacier Albanus Glacier Algie Glacier Alice Glacier Amundsen Glacier Ant Hill Glacier Ashworth Glacier Aurora Glacier Axel Heiberg Glacier Baldwin...
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    of Whales. He discovered a new route to the polar plateau via the Axel Heiberg Glacier. Using this route, a party of five led by Amundsen became the first...
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    using a route from the Bay of Whales to the polar plateau via the Axel Heiberg Glacier. Scott and his four companions reached the South Pole via the Beardmore...
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    52 km2 (20 sq mi) and the White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island glacier was 39 km2 (15 sq mi). The size of these glaciers has been measured since 1961 and...
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  • of the Axel Heiberg Glacier. 85°18′S 166°30′W / 85.300°S 166.500°W / -85.300; -166.500. A prominent rock knob at the head of Strom Glacier. It stands...
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    outlet glaciers, valley glaciers, cirque glaciers, tidewater glaciers and ice streams. Ice streams are a type of glacier and many of them have "glacier" in...
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    also served with Graham Dale. In December 2021, he skied up the Axel Heiberg Glacier in Antarctica. In Fall 2023 through 2024, he had planned to do a...
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    Beardmore Glacier, Amundsen led his party of five due south, reaching the Transantarctic Mountains on 16 November. They discovered the Axel Heiberg Glacier, which...
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  • research station operated by McGill University located near the centre of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut. It is located approximately 115 km (71 mi) southwest...
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  • McGregor, V.R. (May 1965), "Geology of the area between the Axel Heiberg and Shackleton Glaciers, Queen Maud Range, Antarctica", New Zealand Journal of Geology...
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  • basal water pressure and glacier motion demonstrated for the first time that velocity variations at White Glacier (Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic)...
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  • In 1959 he became the scientific leader of a Canadian expedition to Axel Heiberg Island organised by McGill University, where he became Assistance Professor...
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    Pennsylvania (d. 1998) After four days of working their way up the Axel Heiberg Glacier, Roald Amundsen and his party were able to reach the plateau of the...
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