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Commonwealth Glacier is a glacier which flows in a southeasterly direction and enters the northern side of Taylor Valley immediately west of Mount Coleman, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott, and named by them for the Commonwealth of Australia, which made a financial grant to the BrAE and contributed two members to the Western Geological Party which explored this area. The north end of the glacier is bounded by Flint Ridge.
Convoy Range is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the range has a nearly flat plateau-like summit, extending south from the Fry Saddle and ending at Mackay Glacier. The range has steep cliffs on its east side, but it slopes gently into the Cambridge Glacier on the western side.
Telemeter Glacier is a small glacier 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Fireman Glacier in the west part of Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name is one of a group in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB); telemeter being an instrument used to ascertain ranges and distances.
Haskell Glacier is a small glacier descending from the Christoffersen Heights and draining west between Prism Ridge and the Forbidden Rocks, in the Jones Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the University of Minnesota Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Hugh B. Haskell, U.S. Navy, co-pilot on a pioneer flight of November 25, 1961 from Byrd Station to establish Sky-High Camp at 75°14′S77°6′W.
The Chain Moraines are drifting moraines located 5 kilometres (3 mi) northwest of Skew Peak at the confluent flow of ice from Rim Glacier, Sprocket Glacier, and Mackay Glacier, including the moraines at the west side of Rim Glacier, in Victoria Land. Approved by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1995, the name alludes to the use of a bicycle as a practical means of transportation by a New Zealand glacial mapping party led by Trevor Chinn, summer season 1992–93, and is part of a theme of cycling names in the area.
Chattahoochee Glacier is a glacier in the Convoy Range which flows northeast between Wyandot Ridge and Eastwind Ridge. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and from Navy air photos, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for the USNS Chattahoochee, a tanker in the American convoy into McMurdo Sound in the 1961–62 and 1962–63 seasons.
Otago Glacier is a glacier about 20 nautical miles (37 km) long draining the northeast side of Mount Markham and entering Nimrod Glacier just east of Svaton Peaks. Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961–62) for the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Dauphin Pond is a freshwater frozen pond in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The pond is near the southwest extremity of Healy Trough, 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) east of the Wright Upper Glacier terminus. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after a United States Coast Guard Dauphin helicopter (HH-65A) that landed on the pond January 20, 2004, in the course of sampling the pond.
Jones Buttress is a wedge-shaped feature similar to and 3 kilometres (2 mi) north of Brown Buttress, where it juts out from the east side of Surveyors Range into Dickey Glacier. It was named in honor of L. R. Jones, a member of the 1959 Cape Hallett winter-over team, working as a scientific officer on the geomagnetic project.
Fritter Glacier is a glacier between Mount Curtiss and Mount Jensen in the Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It flows east to Wilson Piedmont Glacier. It was named in association with Mount Curtiss after Captain C.T. Fritter, U.S. Navy, commander of the seaplane tender USS Curtiss in the Ross Sea during Operation Deep Freeze II, 1956–57.
Gurling Glacier is a glacier draining between Krebs Ridge and Leininger Peak into the southwest corner of Smith Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Paul William Gurling, a British Antarctic Survey surveyor who worked in the general vicinity of this feature. Paul was a BAS surveyor, Stonington Island.
Te Puna Roimata Peak is a peak located 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) west of Terra Nova Glacier and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Lewis Bay on the lower northeast slope of Mount Erebus, Ross Island. On November 28, 1979, a New Zealand DC10 aircraft on a scenic flight from Auckland crashed near this peak claiming the lives of 237 passengers from eight countries and a crew of 20. In 1987, a stainless steel memorial cross was erected west of the peak. Te Puna Roimata Peak was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) in 2000.
Franca Glacier named after Fernando E. Franca, is a glacier in Antarctica, flowing northeast into the head of Solberg Inlet, Bowman Coast, to the south of Houser Peak. The glacier was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service, 1940, and the U.S. Navy, 1966. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1946–48, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1977 after Fernando E. Franca, Medical Officer and Station Manager, Palmer Station, 1974.
Medley Ridge is a rock ridge that extends northeast from Mount Fleming to the southern margin of Wright Upper Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after David Medley, a PHI helicopter mechanic with the United States Antarctic Program in eight consecutive field seasons from 1996 to 1997.
Hurley Glacier is a glacier between Mount Gaudry and Mount Liotard, flowing east into Ryder Bay, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 after Alec J. Hurley, a British Antarctic Survey mechanic at Halley Station, 1975–76, and Rothera Station, 1976–77.
Lake Vashka is a lake near the center of Barwick Valley, about 4 nautical miles east of Webb Glacier in Victoria Land. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) (1958–59) after Vashka (Vaska), a sled dog of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13.
Clarke Glacier is a 5 mile long glacier, which drains east to the coast of Victoria Land, immediately north of Lewandowski Point. The seaward extremity of this glacier merges with the flow of Davis Glacier and other glaciers from the south and contributes to the floating tongue of ice between Cape Reynolds and Lamplugh Island.
Raney Peak is a symmetrical peak rising to 2,050 metres (6,730 ft) between Rim Glacier and Sprocket Glacier, Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after Michele E. Raney, who was a physician with the 1979 winter party at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. She was the first female to winter at an Antarctic inland station.
Beehive Mountain is a mountain 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Finger Mountain, standing at the north margin and near the head of Taylor Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Discovery Expedition (1901–04), possibly at the suggestion of Albert Armitage who discovered it. Climbed by the three members of the New Zealand Advance Party on 21 January 1956.
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- ↑ "Sprocket Glacier". data.aad.gov.au. 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
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