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The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica
Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
 is one of the largest glaciers in the world, with a length exceeding 160 km (100 mi). The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf

File:Map-antarctica-ross-ice-shelf-red-x.pngThe Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred meters thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 meters high above the water surface....
 through the Queen Alexandra
Queen Alexandra Range

The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range in East Antarctica, about 160 km long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf....
 and Commonwealth
Commonwealth Range

The Commonwealth Range is a north-south trending mountain range of rugged mountains, 100 km long, located on the continent of Antarctica. The range borders the eastern side of Beardmore Glacier from the Ross Ice Shelf to Keltie Glacier....
 ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains
Transantarctic Mountains

The three largest mountain ranges on the Antarctic continent are the Transantarctic Mountains, the West Antarctica Ranges, and the East Antarctica Ranges....
 to the Antarctic Plateau
Antarctic Plateau

The Antarctic Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica, extending for about a thousand kilometres, and which includes the South Pole. It is at an average elevation of close to 3000 metres ....
, and was one of the early routes to the South Pole
South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's rotation intersects the surface....
.

The glacier was discovered by Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Royal Victorian Order Order of British Empire, was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration....
 during his Nimrod
Nimrod (ship)

Nimrod was the ship used by Ernest Shackleton in his 1908 Antarctica Nimrod Expedition for the South Pole. It was a 41-year-old schooner of 334 gross register tons which had been used to hunt seals and whales....
 Antarctic expedition of 1908. Although Shackleton turned back before reaching the South Pole, he had discovered the first proven route to the pole, and in doing so, became the first person to set foot upon the great polar plateau.






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The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica
Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
 is one of the largest glaciers in the world, with a length exceeding 160 km (100 mi). The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf

File:Map-antarctica-ross-ice-shelf-red-x.pngThe Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred meters thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 meters high above the water surface....
 through the Queen Alexandra
Queen Alexandra Range

The Queen Alexandra Range is a major mountain range in East Antarctica, about 160 km long, bordering the entire western side of Beardmore Glacier from the Polar Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf....
 and Commonwealth
Commonwealth Range

The Commonwealth Range is a north-south trending mountain range of rugged mountains, 100 km long, located on the continent of Antarctica. The range borders the eastern side of Beardmore Glacier from the Ross Ice Shelf to Keltie Glacier....
 ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains
Transantarctic Mountains

The three largest mountain ranges on the Antarctic continent are the Transantarctic Mountains, the West Antarctica Ranges, and the East Antarctica Ranges....
 to the Antarctic Plateau
Antarctic Plateau

The Antarctic Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica, extending for about a thousand kilometres, and which includes the South Pole. It is at an average elevation of close to 3000 metres ....
, and was one of the early routes to the South Pole
South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's rotation intersects the surface....
.

The glacier was discovered by Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Royal Victorian Order Order of British Empire, was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration....
 during his Nimrod
Nimrod (ship)

Nimrod was the ship used by Ernest Shackleton in his 1908 Antarctica Nimrod Expedition for the South Pole. It was a 41-year-old schooner of 334 gross register tons which had been used to hunt seals and whales....
 Antarctic expedition of 1908. Although Shackleton turned back before reaching the South Pole, he had discovered the first proven route to the pole, and in doing so, became the first person to set foot upon the great polar plateau. In 1911-1912, Captain Scott
Robert Falcon Scott

Robert Falcon Scott Royal Victorian Order was a British Royal Naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13....
 and his team successfully reached the South Pole by climbing the Beardmore. However, they reached the pole a month after Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen , was a Norwegian people Exploration of polar regions. He led the first Antarctica expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912....
 and his team, who had climbed the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier
Axel Heiberg Glacier

The Axel Heiberg Glacier is a valley glacier, 48 km long, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen, in the Queen Maud Mountains....
.

Beardmore Glacier is named after Sir William Beardmore
William Beardmore

William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn was an England-Scotland Business magnate.Beardmore was born in Deptford, London, where his father, also William Beardmore, was a mechanical engineer....
, a Scottish
Scotland

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 industrialist and expedition sponsor born in 1856.

See also

  • List of glaciers in the Antarctic
    List of glaciers in the Antarctic

    This is a list of glaciers in the Antarctic.Ice streams are a type of glacier and many of them have 'glacier' in their name, e.g. Pine Island Glacier....