Beardmore Glacier
| Beardmore Glacier | ||
|---|---|---|
 View from Beardmore Glacier to the Meyer Desert |
||
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 160 km | |
| width | Max. 30 km | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 45 ′ S , 171 ° 0 ′ E | |
|
||
| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
 Radar image (south is up) |
||
 Map sheet with the mouth of the BEARDMORE GLACIER in the east |
||
The Beardmore Glacier is a roughly 160 km long and up to 30 km wide glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It extends over a catchment area of about 1 million square kilometers from the Polar Plateau by a U-shaped valley between the queen Alexandra- and the Commonwealth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains and flows at the Shackleton Coast into the Ross Ice Shelf , which he at Mount Hope reached . After the Lambert Glacier , it is the second largest glacier on earth .
The southern group around the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him in December 1908 during the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) on the way to the geographic South Pole. The glacier is named after the Scottish entrepreneur William Beardmore , a sponsor of the research trip . Shackleton chose the Beardmore Glacier, which at its mouth looks like an inviting and easily climbed ramp, as a route from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Polar Plateau and on to the South Pole, which he did not reach. About 180 km before reaching the destination, he and his three companions had to turn back. The British Robert Falcon Scott and his team reached the South Pole on the same route on January 18, 1912, but only five weeks after the Norwegian Roald Amundsen , who and his team had advanced over the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier to the polar plateau.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Bittorf , Ulrich Jaeger : The last trip on earth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1990 ( online ).
- ^ Wilhelm Bittorf : We will die like gentlemen . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1979 ( online ).