Norfolk Glacier
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Norfolk Glacier (85°53′S 130°18′W) is a glacier, 12 nautical miles (22 km) long, draining westward from Wisconsin Range to enter Reedy Glacier between mounts Soyat and Bolton. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Norfolk, VA, location of Detachment Three, the Meteorological Support Unit of the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica.
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Norfolk Glacier
Glacier in the Antarctic
- Desc: Norfolk Glacier is a glacier, 12 nautical miles long, draining westward from Wisconsin Range to enter Reedy Glacier between mounts Soyat and Bolton. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_Glacier
- Type: TouristAttraction, Thing, Place
- Result Score: 24.00
Escort carrier
- Desc: HMS Atheling was a Royal Navy Ruler-class escort carrier of the Second World War. She was a US built ship provided under lend lease and returned to the US at the end of hostilities.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Atheling
- Type: Thing
- Result Score: 0.02
Glacier in the Antarctic
- Desc: The Reedy Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica, over 160 km long and from 10 to 19 km wide, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Michigan Plateau and Wisconsin Range, and marking the limits of the Queen Maud Mountains on the west and the Horlick Mountains on the east.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Glacier
- Type: TouristAttraction, Thing, Place
- Result Score: 0.00
Ship
- Desc: Nimrod was the ship Ernest Shackleton used in his 1908 Antarctic Nimrod Expedition for the South Pole. It was a 41-year-old schooner of 334 gross register tons that had been used to hunt seals and whales.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_(ship)
- Type: Thing
- Result Score: 0.00
Mesa in the Antarctic
- Desc: Haworth Mesa is an ice-capped mesa with steep rock walls whose summit area is 5 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide and rises to 3,610 metres, standing between Sisco Mesa and Mount McNaughton where it forms part of the divide between Norfolk Glacier and Olentangy Glacier in the western Wisconsin Range of Antarctica.
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haworth_Mesa
- Type: TouristAttraction, Thing, Place
- Result Score: 0.00
Event
- Type: Event, Thing
- Result Score: 0.00