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37-797: The Scott Glacier originates on the Antarctic Plateau in the vicinity of D'Angelo Bluff and Mount Howe , and descends between the Nilsen Plateau and the mountains of the Watson Escarpment to enter Ross Ice Shelf just west of the Tapley Mountains . The Tapley Mountains , Watson Escarpment , Mount Blackburn , and the La Gorce Mountains bound the Scott Glacier on its eastern margin, while

74-621: Is one of the most well-represented bacterial groups in marine habitats; Bacteroidota (e.g. Cryomorphaceae and Flavobacteriaceae ); and Cyanobacteria . According to research, polar microorganisms should be considered as not only deposited airborne particles, but also as active components of the snowpack ecology of the Antarctic Plateau. No penguins live on the Antarctic Plateau, and few birds routinely fly over it, except mostly Antarctic petrels , snow petrels and south polar skuas . There are very few land animals anywhere on

111-838: Is the southernmost mountain in the world. Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party led by Quin Blackburn. Named by Admiral Byrd for Louis McHenry Howe , secretary to the President of the United States at that time, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 87°04′S 153°46′W  /  87.067°S 153.767°W  / -87.067; -153.767 . A solitary volcanic cone, 2,720 metres (8,920 ft) high, standing 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) north of D'Angelo Bluff, on

148-653: The Gothic Mountains . It drains west between Outlook Peak and Organ Pipe Peaks into Scott Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN aerial photographs, 1960-64. The descriptive name was proposed by Edmund Stump, leader of a USARP-Arizona State University geological party which established a base camp on the glacier in January 1981. 85°52′S 151°00′W  /  85.867°S 151.000°W  / -85.867; -151.000 . A glacier, 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi) long, flowing west along

185-680: The Hays Mountains . Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN in association with Mount Vaughan. 85°42′S 154°24′W  /  85.700°S 154.400°W  / -85.700; -154.400 . A low gradient glacier flowing northeast from Mount Griffith in the Hays Mountains to the Karo Hills . First seen and roughly mapped by the ByrdAE, 1928-30. Named by US-ACAN for Peter H. Koerwitz, biolab manager at McMurdo Station in 1965. Tributaries from

222-601: The Karo Hills , Hays Mountains , Faulkner Escarpment , and Rawson Mountains define the western edge of the Scott's drainage. According to Sailing Directions for Antarctica (1960),"Eastward of the Amundsen Glacier the foothills are more nearly submerged beneath snow and ice, and show greater evidence of glacierization than those in the vicinity of the Axel Heiberg and Liv Glaciers. About 15 miles eastward of

259-465: The Karo Hills . The head of the Scott Glacier forms between the D'Angelo Bluff and Mount McIntyre to the west and Mount Howe to the east. The glacier flows north past Mount Early and Sunny Ridge to the west. 87°18′S 154°00′W  /  87.300°S 154.000°W  / -87.300; -154.000 . A prominent north-facing rock bluff, 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) long, trending westward from Mount Mclntyre. The bluff stands at

296-459: The Tapley Mountains to enter Scott Glacier just south of Mount Durham . Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Derrell M. Roe, a member of summer parties at McMurdo Station in 1963-64 and 1964–65 and station engineer with the McMurdo winter party in 1966. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of

333-622: The United States Geological Survey . Antarctic Plateau The Antarctic Plateau , Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi), and includes the region of the geographic South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station . This huge continental plateau is at an average elevation of about 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). This plateau

370-665: The king of the United Kingdom . In December 1911, while returning from the first journey to the South Pole , the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen decided to name this plateau the King Haakon VII Plateau in honour of the newly elected king of Norway. The Antarctic Plateau was first observed and photographed from the air in 1929 by a Ford Trimotor aeroplane carrying four men on the first flight to

407-569: The Amundsen Glacier is the Robert Scott Glacier (Thorne Glacier), from 5 to 15 miles wide, trending in a north-south direction about 90 miles. Thorvald Nilsen Mountains (Mount Thorvald Nilsen) (86°W' S.,158°00' W.), a mountain massif of the Queen Maud Range, rise to elevations of about 13,000 feet and lie between the upper parts of the Scott and Amundsen Glaciers. The Will Hays Mountains (85°57' S., 155°20' W.) also in

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444-598: The ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Capt. Robert A. Bartlett of Brigus, Newfoundland, noted Arctic navigator and explorer who recommended that the expedition acquire the Bear, an ice-ship which was purchased and rechristened by Byrd as the Bear of Oakland. Not: Bob Bartlett Glacier. 86°30′S 154°00′W  /  86.500°S 154.000°W  / -86.500; -154.000 . A tributary glacier about 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) long, flowing northeast from Fuller Dome to enter

481-489: The ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. Eugene W. Van Reeth, pilot with USN Squadron VX-6 in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze 1966, 1967 and 1968, and Squadron Commander in 1969. 86°14′S 149°12′W  /  86.233°S 149.200°W  / -86.233; -149.200 . A short tributary glacier draining west into Scott Glacier immediately north of Mount Russell , in

518-658: The David Hills. The Robison Glacier enters from the right to the south of Mount Bowlin and the VanReeth Glacier enters from the right to the north of Mount Bowlin. The Scott Glacier flows past the Watson Escarpment to the east, from which the Howe Glacier and Griffith Glacier join it from the right. To the north of Mount Ruth , to the west of the Scott Glacier, the Bartlett Glacier joins from

555-456: The President of the United States at that time, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 87°22′S 149°30′W  /  87.367°S 149.500°W  / -87.367; -149.500 . An elongated mountain, 2,930 metres (9,610 ft) high, comprising low connecting ridges and gable-shaped nunataks. It rises at the east side of Scott Glacier, near the head, directly opposite Mount Mclntyre. This mountain, including its small southern outlier, apparently

592-948: The Queen Maud Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Robert C. Howe of USN Squadron VX-6, photographer on Operation Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967. 86°11′S 149°24′W  /  86.183°S 149.400°W  / -86.183; -149.400 . A tributary glacier draining westward from the California Plateau and Watson Escarpment to enter Scott Glacier between Mount McKercher and Mount Meeks . Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Philip G. Griffith, aircraft commander on photographic flights during Operation Deep Freeze 1966 and 1967. 86°00′S 150°25′W  /  86.000°S 150.417°W  / -86.000; -150.417 . A glacier almost completely encircled by

629-485: The Queen Maud Range, surmount the divide between the lower ends of these two glaciers. Mount Thorne rises to 6,000 feet in the Will Hays Mountains. Mount Weaver (86°57' S, 152°20' W.), about 10,000 feet high, marks the southern portal of the glacier at the polar plateau. Blackburn in 1934, found at Mount Weaver extensive coal beds and fossil tree section up to 18 inches in diameter. The eastern wall of

666-470: The Robert Scott Glacier is marked by a series of isolated flat-topped mountains between which tributary glaciers drain from the polar plateau into the Thorne Valley. The eastern portal of the Robert Scott Glacier is marked by a detached land mass, about 30 miles long in a southeast-northwest direction. Southward of this massif is Albanus Glacier (Phillips Glacier), which flows westward and merges with

703-598: The Scott Glacier but rather ascended the Beardmore Glacier to the west en route to the South Pole in 1911–12. It was first ski traversed in January 1990 by Martyn Williams (Canada, the leader and guide) and Jerry Corr (USA) traveling from the South Pole to the Ross Ice Shelf and then by Mike McDowell (Australia) in 1992, on a ski traverse from the South Pole to the coast. Thus Williams and Corr were

740-449: The South Pole and back to the seacoast. The chief pilot of this flight was Bernt Balchen , a native of Norway , and the navigator and chief organizer of this expedition was Richard E. Byrd of Virginia , an officer in the U.S. Navy . The other two members of its crew were the co-pilot and the photographer. The high elevations of the Antarctic Plateau, combined with its high latitudes and its extremely long, sunless winters, mean that

777-527: The US-ACAN for Henrik Mohn , Norwegian meteorologist and author of the meteorological report of this expedition. Tributaries from the left (west) include from south to north: 86°50′S 153°30′W  /  86.833°S 153.500°W  / -86.833; -153.500 . A tributary glacier draining east along the south flank of the Rawson Mountains to enter Scott Glacier. Discovered by

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814-586: The first people to traverse Antarctica under human power as described in the book The Snotsicle Traverse by Jerry Corr. Download coordinates as: The Scott Glacier forms on the Polar Plateau and flows north between Mount Wilbur and the Davis Hills . The Poulter Glacier enters from the left (west) to the north of Mount Innes-Taylor . The Klein Glacier enters from the right (east) to the north of

851-505: The geological party of the ByrdAE, 1933–35, and named by Byrd for Thomas C. Poulter, second in command of the expedition. 86°15′S 152°00′W  /  86.250°S 152.000°W  / -86.250; -152.000 . A tributary glacier, about 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) long and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) wide at its terminus. It flows northeast from Nilsen Plateau and joins Scott Glacier close north of Mount Gardiner . Discovered in December 1934 by

888-809: The left. Tributaries of the Bartlett Glacier include the Holdsworth Glacier and the Souchez Glacier. Further north, the Scott Glacier flows past the Tapley Mountains to the east, from which it receives the Albanus Glacier and the Roe Glacier. From the Queen Maud Mountains to the west it receives the Vaughan Glacier. The Koerwitz Glacier flows beside the Scott Glacier then pulls away at Mount Salisbury in

925-719: The lower heights of Robert Scott Glacier. The Albanus Glacier and the Leverett Glacier bifurcate at the eastern extremity of the detached land mass in about 85°48' S., 146° W. Scott Glacier was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Laurence Gould . Scott Glacier was originally called Thorne Glacier. The Scott Glacier was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after early Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who never saw

962-569: The north side of La Gorce Mountains to enter Scott Glacier. Discovered in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Layton E. Robison, pilot with USN Squadron VX-6 during Operation Deep Freeze 1964, 1965 and 1966. 86°25′S 148°00′W  /  86.417°S 148.000°W  / -86.417; -148.000 . A tributary glacier about 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) long, draining westward to Scott Glacier between Mount Blackburn and Mount Bowlin . Discovered in December 1934 by

999-480: The party on this bluff. 87°17′S 153°00′W  /  87.283°S 153.000°W  / -87.283; -153.000 . A rocky, flat, projecting-type mountain that forms the northeast extremity of D'Angelo Bluff. It rises at the west side of Scott Glacier, near the head, directly opposite Mount Howe. Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party led by Quin Blackburn. Named by Admiral Byrd for Marvin H. McIntyre , secretary to

1036-613: The right (east) are from south to north: 86°48′S 150°00′W  /  86.800°S 150.000°W  / -86.800; -150.000 . A broad glacier near the edge of the polar plateau, flowing northwest into Scott Glacier immediately south of La Gorce Mountains . Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Verle W. Klein, pilot with USN Squadron VX-6 on Operation Deep Freeze, 1966 and 1967. 86°29′S 148°12′W  /  86.483°S 148.200°W  / -86.483; -148.200 . A broad tributary glacier flowing northwest along

1073-499: The south side of Tapley Mountains to enter Scott Glacier just north of Mount Zanuck . Discovered in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Albanus Phillips, Jr., manufacturer of Cambridge, MD, a patron of the ByrdAE of 1928-30 and 1933-35. Not: Phillips Glacier. 85°36′S 151°26′W  /  85.600°S 151.433°W  / -85.600; -151.433 . A tributary glacier, 10 miles (16 km) long, flowing northwest through

1110-449: The southeast side of Bartlett Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for Gerald Holdsworth, involved in geological studies at McMurdo Station, summer of 1965-66. 86°17′S 154°00′W  /  86.283°S 154.000°W  / -86.283; -154.000 . A tributary glacier about 17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi) long, flowing from Mount Crockett south along the east side of Faulkner Escarpment and then turning southeast to parallel

1147-488: The southwest side of Hays Mountains . It joins Bartlett Glacier just south of Mount Dietz . Named by US-ACAN for Roland A. Souchez, involved in geological studies at McMurdo Station during the season of 1965-66. 85°55′S 153°12′W  /  85.917°S 153.200°W  / -85.917; -153.200 . A tributary glacier, 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) long, draining eastward from Mount Vaughan to enter Scott Glacier just south of Taylor Ridge , in

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1184-548: The surface near the edge of the polar plateau. It extends southward from the western limit of Quarles Range for about 100 nautical miles (190 km; 120 mi) and includes the névé area adjacent to the heads of the Bowman, Devils, Amundsen and Scott 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. Named by

1221-541: The temperatures here are the lowest in the world in most years, falling as low as −92 °C (−134 °F). The nearly continuous frigid winds that blow across the Antarctic Plateau, especially in the austral winter, make the environment inhospitable to life. Microbial abundance is low (<103 cells/ml of snowmelt ). The microbial community is mainly composed of members of the Alphaproteobacteria class (e.g. Kiloniellaceae and Rhodobacteraceae ), which

1258-762: The west side and near the head of Scott Glacier. Discovered in December 1934 from nearby Mount Weaver by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party led by Quin Blackburn. Visited by the Ohio State University geological party led by George Doumani on November 21, 1962. Named by US-ACAN after Capt. Neal E. Early, USA, a member of the aviation unit that supported the USGS Topo East survey of this area, 1962-63. 87°00′S 154°26′W  /  87.000°S 154.433°W  / -87.000; -154.433 . A partly snow-free ridge that trends southward for 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) from

1295-516: The west side of Scott Glacier, near the head, 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) south of Mount Early. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party led by Quin Blackburn, in December 1934. The bluff was visited December 5, 1962 by a geological party of the Ohio State University Institute of Polar Studies, led by George Doumani. Named by Doumani for CWO John D'Angelo, USA, helicopter pilot who landed

1332-469: The western extremity of Mount Weaver . It stands at the west side of and near the head of Scott Glacier. The ridge was scaled by the Ohio State University geological party in November 1962. So named by party leader George Doumani because of very sunny conditions during the climb. 86°30′S 168°00′W  /  86.500°S 168.000°W  / -86.500; -168.000 A major depression in

1369-635: Was first sighted in 1903 during the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic, which was led by Robert Falcon Scott . Ernest Shackleton became the first to cross parts of this plateau in 1909 during his Nimrod Expedition , which turned back in bad weather when it had reached a point 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole . Shackleton named this plateau the King Edward VII Plateau in honour of

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