Titan Dome
Coordinates: 88 ° 30 ′ S , 165 ° 0 ′ E
The Titan Dome is a large ice dome on the Antarctic plateau , which extends in an east-west direction and rises to an altitude of up to 3,100 meters. It lies between the Queen Maud Mountains and the South Pole . The ice dome was first crossed by the sled teams of Ernest Shackleton (1909), Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott (1911/12) on their way to the South Pole and described by them as an extensive ridge of snow. The ice dome was mapped out jointly by the Scott Polar Research Institute , the National Science Foundation and Denmark's Technical University as part of an ice thickness measurement program running from 1967 to 1979 with the help of Radio Echo Sounding and named after the computer Titan at Cambridge University (UK), with which the radar data of the survey program in Antarctica were evaluated.
Web links
- Australian Antarctic Data Center datasheet , accessed March 25, 2018
- Titan Dome : Diary of the Norwegian expedition on the 100th anniversary of the Ammundsen expedition to the South Pole (English), accessed on March 25, 2018