10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROSS BARRIER»
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1
The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
Some authorities. such as Mr. |.M. Wordie. use this term in preference to the term
Shelf Ice ... Others. such as Mr. R.E. Priestly. restrict its use to the Ross Barrier.
1939 Byrd. Richard E. Alone Reader's Union Ltd and Putnam & Co Ltd. London:
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
C46; UF Rhodostethia rosea Ross's gull BT Rhodostethia Ross Ice Barrier (
Antarctica) USE Ross Ice Shelf (Antarctica) Ross Ice Shelf (Antarctica) UF Grosse
Eisebene (Antarctica) Ross Barrier (Antarctica) Ross Ice Barrier (Antarctica) Ross
...
Library of Congress, 2006
3
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet
They also proposed that at least some of the "Ross Barrier" was composed of ice
draining from outlet glaciers of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet along the west side of
the Ross Sea which merged with the "Ross Barrier" and flowed northward.
4
At the Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions
Later, it would be called the Great Ice Barrier, the Great Southern Barrier, the Icy
Barrier, the Ice Barrier, and simply the Barrier before being dubbed the Ross Ice
Barrier and the Ross Barrier in honor of its discoverer. Now known as the Ross ...
5
A Wise Adventure: New Zealand in Antarctica, 1920-1960
All ice barriers are subject to changes at intervals ... it would be very difficult to
make out a case for regarding their seaward edges as terra ftrma, since that of
even the Ross barrier is undoubtedly afloat, except at one or two points.41 This ...
So much, but no more, could be settled beforehand. The further progress of the
expedition could only be determined later, when the work in the South was
finished. My knowledge of the Ross Barrier was due to descriptions alone; but I
had so ...
7
Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Sea Level: Effect of a CO2-induced ...
However, observations incidental to our oceanographic work suggest relatively
little recent calving of the Ross Barrier. Assuming the two recent positions in
Figure 4.6 are accurate, the Ross Ice Shelf has advanced over l5 km in the past
two ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on the Relationship between Land Ice and Sea Level, United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences. Carbon Dioxide Research Division, 1985
A whole new land had been discovered, if not explored, to the east of Ross's
Barrier, the Barrier itself had been penetrated and surveyed for some 350 miles,
and the question settled as to whether it was afloat or part of the land. 'The
greater ...
Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley, 1990
9
Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd
On the way down from California, he and Captain Nilsen of Larsen had reached “
a most important decision.” Rather than trying to ram both Bolling and City of New
York through the heavy pack ice to the Ross Barrier and the Bay of Whales, ...
10
The Antarctic Exploration Anthology: The Personal Accounts ...
On the 11th we made the interesting discovery that the Ross Barrier ended in an
elevation on the south-east, formed between a chain of mountains running south-
eastward from South Victoria Land and another chain on the opposite side, ...
Sir Ernest Shackleton, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, 2013
