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Ball Glacier (Mount Cook)
Ball Glacier may refer to: * Ball Glacier (James Ross Island), Antarctica * Ball Glacier (Victoria Land) Ball Glacier is a glacier long with the head located between Mount Lister and Mount Hooker on the east side of the Royal Society Range. The glacier flows northeast between Craw Ridge and Tasman Ridge into Blue Glacier. It was named by the New ..., Antarctica * Ball Glacier (New Zealand) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ball Glacier (James Ross Island)
Markham Bay is a bay wide, lying between Ekelöf Point and Hamilton Point on the east side of James Ross Island, Antarctica. It was possibly first seen by a British expedition under James Clark Ross, who explored this area in 1842–43, but was first charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it for Sir Clements Markham Sir Clements Robert Markham (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Society's president fo .... References Bays of James Ross Island {{JamesRossIsland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ball Glacier (Victoria Land)
Ball Glacier is a glacier long with the head located between Mount Lister and Mount Hooker on the east side of the Royal Society Range. The glacier flows northeast between Craw Ridge and Tasman Ridge into Blue Glacier. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board after Gary Ball, a New Zealand mountaineer who climbed Mount Lister with an Italian field party, 1976–77, and camped on this glacier; he was field assistant with R.H. Findlay's New Zealand Antarctic Research Program party to this area, 1980–81. See also * List of glaciers in the Antarctic * Glaciology Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, c ... * Ball Peak References Glaciers of Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-glacier-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |