Natural environment

Natural environment

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mount discovery

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Discovery is a conspicuous, isolated stratovolcano, lying at the head of McMurdo Sound and east of Koettlitz Glacier, overlooking the NW portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. It ...

mount erebus

Natural environment; Volcano

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for their expedition ship Discovery.

mount frakes

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Frakes is a prominent shield volcano marking the highest elevation in the Crary Mountains, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The mountain was mapped by the USGS from surveys ...

gaussberg

Natural environment; Volcano

Gaussberg (or Mount Gauss) is an extinct volcanic cone, 370 metres high (1,213 feet), fronting on Davis Sea immediately west of the Posadowsky Glacier in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land in ...

mount hampton

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Hampton is a shield volcano with a circular ice-filled crater occupying much of the summit area. It is the northernmost of the extinct volcanoes which comprise the Executive ...

mount harcourt

Natural environment; Volcano

Mount Harcourt is a stratovolcano making up part of the Hallett Peninsula extending into the Ross Sea about 375 mi (604 km) south of Mount Erebus, along with three overlapping ...

hudson mountains

Natural environment; Volcano

The Hudson Mountains is a group of parasitic cones forming nunataks just above the Antarctic ice sheet in west Ellsworth Land. They lie just east of Cranton Bay and Pine Island ...