Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 30 ′ S , 94 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands comprise a group of high plateaus in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland that are completely covered by continental glacial ice . The highlands extend from the central Ellsworth Mountains in a west-southwest direction in the vicinity of Mount Moore and Mount Woollard .
The highlands were discovered by a team led by the American geophysicist Charles Bentley (* 1929), who discovered this trench during measurements between 1957 and 1958 starting from the Byrd 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 based on its geographical location in Ellsworthland and its proximity to the Ellsworth Mountains. It is named after the American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (1880–1951).
Web links
- Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands on geographic.org (English)