Rennick Glacier

Rennick Glacier is broad glacier, nearly 200 miles (320 km) long, which is one of the largest in Antarctica. It rises on the polar plateau westward of Mesa Range and is 20 to 30 miles (32 to 48 km) wide, narrowing to 10 miles (16 km) near the coast. It takes its name from Rennick Bay where the glacier reaches the sea. The seaward part of the glacier was photographed by U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Highjump, 1946–47. The upper reaches of the Rennick Glacier were discovered and explored by the U.S. Victoria Land Traverse (VLT) in February 1960, and the first ascent made of Welcome Mountain by John Weihaupt, Alfred Stuart, Claude Lorius and Arnold Heine of the VLT party. On February 10, 1960, Lieutenant Commander Robert L. Dale, pilot of U.S. Navy (USN) Squadron VX-6, evacuated the VLT from 7238S, 16132E, on this glacier, and then conducted an aerial photographic reconnaissance to Rennick Bay on the coast before returning the VLT team to McMurdo Station.

Features
gollark: And most readers probably aren't checking because it's slow and annoying.
gollark: They probably need to be consistent with the last page at most.
gollark: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers//ITA-software-travel-complexity/text0.html
gollark: Because airlines have a really complicated price structure, and the language used to describe fares allows you to encode various hard problems.
gollark: Ticketing-wise.

See also

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Rennick Glacier". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) 


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.