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Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica.These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and study facilities within their respective claimed territories; however, a number of such facilities are located outside of the area claimed by their ...
Ross Ice Shelf situated between Marie Byrd Land and Victoria Land "The mystic Barrier" at Bay of Whales, near where Amundsen first encountered it. Note humans for size comparison (dark spots at left between large chunks of sea ice, near the left image border). RV Nathaniel B. Palmer is in the distance.
Marie Byrd Land – Rocks exposed in western Marie Byrd Land on the Edward VII Peninsula and within the Ford Ranges are candidates for basement in the eastern Ross Sea. [28] The oldest rocks are Permian sediments of the Swanson Formation, which is slightly metamorphosed. The Ford granodiorite of Devonian age intrudes these sediments. Cretaceous ...
The Getz Ice Shelf extends along the north shore of Marie Byrd Land, from Hanessian Foreland and McDonald Heights in the west to Cape Herlacher on the Martin Peninsula to the east. The western section lies along the Hobbs Coast, while the section east of Dean Island lies along the full length of the Bakutis Coast. In the west the ice sheet is ...
Marie Byrd Land is the setting for Kelvinator Station in Michael Chabon's 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Marie Byrd Land is the location of the southern outpost of Brakebills Academy in Lev Grossman's 2009 novel The Magicians. Byrd Station was the template for the doomed Antarctic bases in:
The icefall nourishes the Garfield Glacier near the coast of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for William L. Rhodes, ABH1, United States Navy, Aviation Boatswain's Mate, crash crew leader at Williams Field, McMurdo Sound, during Operation Deep Freeze 1968, 1969 and 1970.
Map of Antarctica showing West Antarctic Rift System in rose shading . The West Antarctic Rift System is a series of rift valleys between East and West Antarctica. [1] It encompasses the Ross Embayment, the Ross Sea, the area under the Ross Ice Shelf and a part of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica, [2] reaching to the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. [1]
Bodies of ice of Marie Byrd Land (2 C, 8 P) B. Bays of Marie Byrd Land (5 P) Pages in category "Bodies of water of Marie Byrd Land"