Beardmore Glacier
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Key facts
- Type
- Valley glacier
- Location
- Queen Maud Mountains
- Length
- 200 km (125 mi)
- Width
- 40 km (25 mi)
- Thickness
- unknown
- Terminus
- Ross Ice Shelf
- Status
- unknown
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest valley glaciers in the world, being 200 km (125 mi) long and having a width of 40 km (25 mi). It descends about 2,200 m (7,200 ft) from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf and is bordered by the Commonwealth Range of the Queen Maud Mountains on the eastern side and the Queen Alexandra Range of the Central Transantarctic Mountains on the western. Its mouth is east of the Lennox-King Glacier. It is northwest of the Ramsey Glacier.
Early exploration
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beardmore Glacier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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