Byrd subglacial basin

Byrd subglacial basin
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location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Geographical location	80 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 115 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 80 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 115 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W

The Byrd Subglazialbecken ( english Byrd Subglacial Basin ) is a large, by glacial ice completely material covered pool in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It extends in an east-west orientation between the Crary Mountains and the Ellsworth Mountains . To the south it is separated from the Bentley subglacial ridge by a low subglacial ridge .

The first rough surveys of the basin were undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s by several US crews who operated from Byrd Station , Little America V Station and Ellsworth Station . Its extent was determined by sonar tracking as part of a joint program of the Scott Polar Research Institute , the National Science Foundation and Denmark's Technical University between 1967 and 1979. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1961 after its proximity to Byrd Station and its location in Marie Byrd Land. It is named after the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1857) and his wife Marie Donaldson Byrd (née Ames, 1889–1974).

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