Taylor Dome

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Coordinates: 77 ° 40 ′  S , 157 ° 40 ′  E

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The Taylor Dome is an elliptical ice dome 46 km west-northwest of Mount Crean in the Lashly Mountains in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It reaches a length of 70 km and a width of 26 km in an east-southeast-west-northwest extension. Its maximum height is 2400  m . The ice dome belongs to the headwaters of the Taylor Glacier , from which its name is derived.

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 name goes back to the British glaciologist and geophysicist David J. Drewry (* 1947) from the Scott Polar Research Institute in 1980. It is named after the British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), participant of the Terra Nova expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .

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