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Violante Inlet
Violante Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet long, in an east–west direction, and wide, lying between Cape Fanning and Cape Herdman along the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) and named for Maj. (later Col.) Andre L. Violante, USA, who designed the prefabricated buildings used by the expedition. Particularly because of a false floor, they proved to be the must satisfactory quarters used by American Antarctic expeditions. See also *Heirtzler Ice Piedmont Heirtzler Ice Piedmont () is a relatively low, triangular-shaped, ice-covered area of about extent, located at the west side of Violante Inlet and north of Maury Glacier, on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. The feature was first seen ... References Inlets of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Fanning
Cape Fanning () is a cape that forms the north side of the entrance to Violante Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service in a flight from East Base on December 30, 1940, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Edmund Fanning Edmund Fanning (July 16, 1769 – April 23, 1841) was an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." Life Born in Stonington in the British Crown Colony of Connecticut to Gilbert and Huldah Fanning, from ne ..., of Stonington, CT, and New York City, who in addition to actual Antarctic exploration in connection with his sealing and whaling business also vigorously promoted exploration by others under both private and public auspices. His book, ''Voyages Round the World'', published in 1833, is an authoritative work on early American Antarctic exploration. References Headlands of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Herdman
Cape Herdman () is a broad ice-covered cape forming the southern entrance point to Violante Inlet, on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. The cape was photographed from the air in 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service; it was rephotographed from the air in 1947 by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition and, in conjunction with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed from the ground. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Henry F.P. Herdman (1901–67), a British oceanographer who was a member of the scientific staff of the Discovery Investigations The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, wh ..., 1924–49, and was later with the National Institute of Oceanography, 1949–67. References Headlands of Palmer Land {{PalmerLan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmer Land
Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names and the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69° S. Boundaries In its southern extreme, the Antarctic Peninsula stretches west, with Palmer Land eventually bordering Ellsworth Land along the 80° W line of longitude. Palmer Land is bounded in the south by the ice-covered Carlson Inlet, an arm of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, which crosses the 80° W line. This is the base of Cetus Hill. This feature is named after Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer who explored the Antarctic Peninsula area southward of Deceptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the Antarctica continent. Founded in 1959, the USAP manages all U.S. scientific research and related logistics in Antarctica as well as aboard ships in the Southern Ocean. United States Antarctic Program The United States established the U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) in 1959—the name was later changed to the U.S. Antarctic Program—immediately following the success of the International Geophysical Year (IGY). Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has a Presidential Mandate to manage the United States Antarctic Program, through which it operates three year-round research stations and two research vessels, coordinates all U.S. science on the southernmost continent, and works with other federal agencies, the U.S. military, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Antarctic
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Heirtzler Ice Piedmont
Heirtzler Ice Piedmont () is a relatively low, triangular-shaped, ice-covered area of about extent, located at the west side of Violante Inlet and north of Maury Glacier, on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. The feature was first seen and photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service on December 30, 1940, and was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1966–69. In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, it was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after James R. Heirtzler, an American physicist. Heirtzler was a Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Geological Observatory, 1960–64, and Senior Research Scientist, 1964–67; he was Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1969–86; Geophysicist and Head of the Geophysics Branch at the NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |