The Byrd Glacier is a major
glacier in
Antarctica, about long and wide, draining an extensive area of the polar plateau and flowing eastward between the
Britannia Range and
Churchill Mountains
The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier.
Se ...
to discharge into the
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...
at
Barne Inlet. Its valley below the glacier used to be recognised as one of the
lowest points not to be covered by water on Earth (assuming ice doesn't count as water), reaching below sea level. It was named by the NZ-APC after Rear Admiral
Byrd Byrd commonly refers to:
* William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance
* Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), an American naval officer and explorer
Byrd or Byrds may also refer to:
Other people
* Byrd (surname), includin ...
,
US Navy Antarctic explorer.
On the south side of Byrd Glacier is
Blake Massif.
See also
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Glaciology
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Ice stream
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List of Antarctic ice streams
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List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
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List of places in Antarctica below sea level
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Denman Glacier
References
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Ice streams of Antarctica
Glaciers of Oates Land
Glaciers of Hillary Coast
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