Frustration Dome () is a large crevassed
ice dome about southeast of
Mount Henderson in
Mac. Robertson Land
Mac. Robertson Land is the portion of Antarctica lying southward of the coast between William Scoresby Bay and Cape Darnley. It is located at . In the east, Mac. Robertson Land includes the Prince Charles Mountains. It was named by the British Au ...
, Antarctica. The dome was the site of a tellurometer station established during an
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).
History
Australia has had a long involv ...
(ANARE) traverse from
Mawson Station
The Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Mawson lies in Holme Bay in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica in the Austra ...
to
Mount Kjerka
Mount Kjerka () is a mountain, high, at the south end of the Gustav Bull Mountains, south of Mount Marsden, in Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Exped ...
in 1967, and was so named by ANARE because the traverse party was delayed here by vehicle breakdown, delaying completion of the survey until the next spring.
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References
Ice caps of Antarctica
Bodies of ice of Mac. Robertson Land
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