Cooper Snowfield ( 80°56′S 158°40′E / 80.933°S 158.667°E / -80.933; 158.667 ) is a snowfield with an area of about 25 square miles (65 km ) in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica.
13-884: Mount Field may refer to: Mount Field (Antarctica) Mount Field (Tasmania) , in Australia Mount Field National Park , in Australia Mount Field (British Columbia) , in Canada Mount Field (cricket ground) , in Faversham, England Mount Field (New Hampshire) , in the United States See also [ edit ] Mountfield (disambiguation) Field Hill , British Columbia, Canada Field (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
26-410: A Junior Naval Lord who was of assistance to the expedition. The NZGSAE (1960-61) remapped the feature and amended the name to Mount Durnford. Not: Durnford Bluff. 80°53′S 158°02′E / 80.883°S 158.033°E / -80.883; 158.033 . A mountain, 3,010 metres (9,880 ft) high, standing 3 miles (4.8 km) south-south-east of Mount Egerton. Discovered and named by
39-566: A retired diplomat, who was also the Whaling Commissioner for 12 years before John Scott and Jim McLay, setting the groundwork in place. 80°58′S 158°15′E / 80.967°S 158.250°E / -80.967; 158.250 . A mountain, 2,715 metres (8,907 ft) high, standing 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Mount Field. Discovered and named "Durnford Bluff by the BrNAE (1901-04), for Admiral Sir John Durnford ,
52-501: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mount Field (Antarctica) The snowfield rises to over 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) and is nearly encircled by ridges connecting Mount Field, Mount Durnford, and Mount Liard. It was named after Alan K. Cooper, a marine geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey , Menlo Park, California , who
65-796: The BrNAE (1901-04) and named for Admiral Sir George Le Clerc Egerton , a member of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76, one of Scott's advisors for this expedition. 80°50′S 158°06′E / 80.833°S 158.100°E / -80.833; 158.100 A prominent peak, 2,815 metres (9,236 ft) high, rising 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Mount Egerton. Mapped by the NZGSAE (1960-61) and named in association with Mount Egerton. 80°49′S 159°32′E / 80.817°S 159.533°E / -80.817; 159.533 . A prominent peak, 2,410 metres (7,910 ft) high, standing 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Mount Egerton. Named by
78-588: The BrNAE, 1901-04, under Scott. 80°52′S 158°19′E / 80.867°S 158.317°E / -80.867; 158.317 A mountain rising to 2,490 metres (8,170 ft) between Mount Field and Mount Dick. It was named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 's Mount Wilson Observatory , 1919–53; in 1923 he furnished the first certain evidence that extragalactic nebulae were situated far outside
91-816: The NZGSAE (1960-61) for R.G. Dick, Surveyor General of New Zealand. 80°47′S 158°50′E / 80.783°S 158.833°E / -80.783; 158.833 . A cliff between 1,000 and 1,200 metres (3,300 and 3,900 ft) extending east north east from Mount Dick. Named in honor of Stuart Prior, a senior public servant with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade with previous involvement in Antarctic Treaty administration, who led New Zealand's Antarctic Policy Unit for several years and has actively worked against illegal sub-Antarctic fishing. John Durnford Admiral Sir John Durnford , GCB , DSO (6 February 1849 – 13 June 1914)
104-414: The boundaries of our own galaxy, in fact were independent stellar systems. To the north of Mount Field and Mount Hubble are Mount Egerton, East Egerton, Mount Dick and Prior Cliff 80°50′S 157°55′E / 80.833°S 157.917°E / -80.833; 157.917 . A mountain, 2,830 metres (9,280 ft) high, rising 3 miles (4.8 km) north-north-west of Mount Field. Discovered by
117-911: The ridge south of Cooper Snowfield. The peak was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Theodore J. Liard, Jr. (1918–2002), a geographer with the Department of Interior and the Department of Defense in toponymic research for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names , 1949–80. Liard was Chief of the Geographic Names Division at the Defense Mapping Agency , 1969–80. 80°59′S 158°32′E / 80.983°S 158.533°E / -80.983; 158.533 . A mountain rising to 1,900 metres (6,200 ft), located mid way between Mount Durnford and Mount Liard. Named in honor of Ian Stewart,
130-428: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount_Field&oldid=835927850 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
143-702: Was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station . Educated at Eton College and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth , Durnford joined the Royal Navy in 1862 and served in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885 to 1886 for which he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the DSO . Promoted to captain in 1888, he commanded the torpedo school HMS Vernon from 1895 to 1899. In October 1899 he
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#1732772923880156-626: Was appointed in command of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Jupiter , serving in the Channel Fleet , and in December the following year he was appointed to Algiers for the Medway steam reserve. Durnford became Junior Naval Lord in February 1901 and was promoted to rear-admiral on 1 January 1902. He served as Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station from 1904 to 1907. He
169-669: Was involved in drilling and seismic studies of the Antarctic continental margin for deriving paleoenvironments and ice sheet history, 1984–2002. The snowfield is bordered by the Skinner Saddle to the east. Surrounding mountains clockwise from the southeast are Mount Liard, Mount Stewart, Mount Durnford, Mount Field, Mount Hubble. 80°58′S 158°51′E / 80.967°S 158.850°E / -80.967; 158.850 . A peak 6 nautical miles (11 km) east of Mount Durnford. It rises to 1,770 metres (5,800 ft) on
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