Encyclopedia > Beardmore Glacier

  Article Content

Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is the largest glacier in the world. It was discovered by Ernest Shackleton during his Nimrod Antarctic expedition of 1908, and named after the expedition's sponsor. The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Trans-Antarctic Mountains[?] to the Antarctic Plateau[?], and thus made the early conquest of the South Pole possible.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Reformed churches

... Reformed Church[?] The largest branch of the Reformed movement, and the only one of the national Reformed churches to survive without division since the Reformation to ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 21.7 ms