Beardmore Glacier

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Beardmore Glacier is one of the world’s largest valley glaciers in Antarctica, flowing from the Antarctic Plateau down to the Ross Ice Shelf and historically serving as a major route to the South Pole for early explorers.

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Beardmore Glacier canonical 4
Beardmore Glacier upper reaches 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf glacier
valley glacier
belongsTo Antarctic glaciological system
continent Antarctica
country Antarctica
discoveredBy Ernest Shackleton
discoveryExpedition Nimrod Expedition
discoveryYear 1908
emptiesInto Ross Ice Shelf
featureOf Transantarctic Mountains system
flowsFrom Antarctic Plateau
linked to: East Antarctica
flowsTo Ross Ice Shelf
glacierType valley glacier
hasClimate polar
hasHeadNear Antarctic Plateau
linked to: East Antarctica
hasMouthNear Ross Ice Shelf
hasStatus major Antarctic glacier
historicalSignificance key access route from Ross Sea to Antarctic Plateau
isPartOf Antarctic ice sheet system
linked to: Antarctic Ice Sheet
length about 125 miles
about 200 kilometres
locatedIn Antarctica
Transantarctic Mountains
locatedOnCoast Ross Sea sector
linked to: Ross Sea
namedAfter William Beardmore
namedBy Ernest Shackleton
namedForTitle Lord Invernairn
nearbyFeature Queen Alexandra Range
Queen Maud Mountains
notableFor being one of the world’s largest valley glaciers
historical route for early South Pole expeditions
partOf Ross Dependency
region Ross Ice Shelf sector
linked to: Ross Ice Shelf
routeType sledging route
separates Queen Alexandra Range
Queen Maud Mountains
slopeDirection northward
toward Ross Ice Shelf
surfaceFeature crevasses
icefalls
usedAsRouteTo South Pole
usedByExplorer Ernest Shackleton
Robert Falcon Scott
usedDuringExpedition British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909
Terra Nova Expedition 1910–1913
usedHistoricallyBy British Antarctic expeditions

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Ross Dependency contains Beardmore Glacier
Ross Ice Shelf terminusOf Beardmore Glacier
Queen Alexandra Range extendsFrom Beardmore Glacier
Mount Kirkpatrick near Beardmore Glacier
Queen Maud Mountains contains Beardmore Glacier upper reaches
linked to: Beardmore Glacier