Petermann Ranges (Antarctica) (category Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land)
Mountains of Queen Maud Land. These mountain ranges were discovered and plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition)
area was mostly mapped in 1848–1854 by ships looking for Franklin's lost expedition. The first crossing was made by Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906. He used a...
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Dominion Range (category Queen Maud Mountains)
Antarctica. The range is part of the Queen Maud Mountains The range was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 and named by Ernest Shackleton...
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List of nunataks (category Articles with Geo)
Sverdrup Mountains of Queen Maud Land. The name "Bruns-Berge", after Herbert Bruns, electrical engineer with the expedition, was applied in this area by...
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Commonwealth Range (category Queen Maud Mountains)
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 and named by them after the Commonwealth of Australia, which gave much assistance to the expedition. The Commonwealth...
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard (category Terra Nova expedition)
Antarctica. He was a member of the Terra Nova expedition and is acclaimed for his 1922 account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World. Born in...
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Liebknecht Range (category Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land)
Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The Liebknecht Range was discovered and plotted from air photos by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) (GerAE)...
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Mount Erebus (category Articles with Geo)
recorded. The expedition proved to be highly successful in terms of robotic and computer science, and was possibly the first expedition by a robotic platform...
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and British expeditions. The first confirmed landing was by a Norwegian team in 1895. In the early 20th century, there were a few expeditions into the interior...
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Grautskåla Cirque (category Cirques of Queen Maud Land)
Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Grautskåla Cirque was discovered and mapped from air photos by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) (GerAE)...
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highest peak in the world, as part of the 1999 American Shishapangma Ski Expedition. Plans called for Lowe and Anker to be part of the team that would ski...
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Rawson Mountains (Antarctica) (category Articles with Geo)
Rawson Mountains were discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn. They were named by Richard E. Byrd...
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Pole of inaccessibility (category Articles with Geo)
of the World, did not make it due to the flow of sea ice. In 1986, an expedition of Soviet polar scientists led by Dmitry Shparo claimed to reach the original...
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Schüssel Cirque (category Cirques of Queen Maud Land)
the Humboldt Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Schüssel Cirque was discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) (GerAE) under Alfred...
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Eidshaugane Peaks (category Mountains of Queen Maud Land)
Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The Eidshaugane Peaks were discovered and photographed by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) GerAE)...
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Livdebotnen Cirque (category Cirques of Queen Maud Land)
Humboldt Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Livdebotnen Cirque was discovered and photographed by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) (GerAE)....
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Prince Andrew Plateau (category Articles with Geo)
Andrew Plateau was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961-62) for Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth II of Great...
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Betekhtin Range (category Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land)
Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The Betekhtin Range was discovered and plotted from air photos by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) (GerAE)...
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North magnetic pole (category Articles with Geo)
Boothia Peninsula on June 1, 1831, while serving on the second arctic expedition of his uncle, Sir John Ross. Roald Amundsen found the north magnetic pole...
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was founded in 1956 for the IGY by an expedition from the (British) Royal Society. The bay where the expedition set up their base was named Halley Bay...
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proponents in Sweden and Britain for a joint Anglo-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. The impetus for this enterprise came from the geologist and explorer...
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Southern Ocean (section Antarctic expeditions)
of 60th parallel, was surveyed by the Five Deeps Expedition in early February 2019. The expedition's multibeam sonar team identified the deepest point...
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Sverdrup Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land)
Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE), 1949–1952 Luncke Expedition, 1958–1959 Sverdrup Mountains List of mountains of Queen Maud Land Nils Plain "Sverdrup...
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Cape Royds (category Articles with Geo)
Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) (1901–1904) and named for Lieutenant Charles Royds, Royal Navy, who acted as meteorologist on the expedition. Royds subsequently...
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Nordwestliche Insel Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Queen Maud Land)
Nordwestliche Insel Mountains were discovered by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939) (GerAE) under Alfred Ritscher, and named Nordwestliche Insel...
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Scott Glacier (Transantarctic Mountains) (category Queen Maud Mountains)
Glaciers, in the Queen Maud Mountains. The feature was encountered in December 1911 by the South Pole Party of the Norwegian expedition under Roald Amundsen...
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Dana Mountains (category Articles with Geo)
reports of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1928-30, and the ByrdAE, 1933-35, and a member of the latter expedition. 73°14′S 61°37′W / 73.233°S...
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Latady Mountains (category Articles with Geo)
Latady Mountains were seen from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) on 21 November 1947 and partially surveyed by the Falkland Islands...
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Arctic Ocean (category Articles with Geo)
in the Fram Expedition from 1893 to 1896. The first surface crossing of the ocean was led by Wally Herbert in 1969, in a dog sled expedition from Alaska...
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Cape Crozier (category Articles with Geo)
Antarctica. It was discovered in 1841 during James Clark Ross's polar expedition of 1839 to 1843 with HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was named after Commander...
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