Marie Byrd Land (Antarctica)
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Name (Hebrew)
מארי בירד לנד (אנטארקטיקה)
Name (Latin)
Marie Byrd Land (Antarctica)
Other forms of name
Byrd Land (Antarctica)
Coordinates
-120 -120 -80 -80 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Islands Antarctica
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q745767
Library of congress:
sh2017000251
Sources of Information
- Work cat: 2017588206: Texas Tech University. Antarctic Research Center. Reconnaissance geologic map of the [local area name] quadrangle, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 1977-;map recto (Marie Byrd Land)
- GNIS online, February 6, 2017:(Marie Byrd Land, 9395, Area, 80000S 120000W)
- Geographic names of the Antarctic, 2nd edition, 1995:(Marie Byrd Land, 80°00ʹS, 120°00ʹW)
- Columbia gazetteer of the world, 2nd edition 2008:(Marie Byrd Land, area of west Antarctica, also known as Byrd Land; Geologically it is an island connected to the continent by the deep ice of the Byrd Subglacial Basin)
Wikipedia description:
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of 1,610,000 km2 (620,000 sq mi), it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th century. The territory lies in West Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean portion of the Antarctic or Southern Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W. The inclusion of the area between the Rockefeller Plateau and Eights Coast is based upon Byrd's exploration.
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