Cape Murray
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Cape Murray is a mainly ice-covered coastal bluff at the north side of the mouth of Carlyon Glacier
, on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) and named for George R.M. Murray, temporary director of the scientific staff of the expedition, who had accompanied the Discovery as far as Cape Town
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Carlyon Glacier
Carlyon Glacier is a large glacier which flows east-southeast from the névé east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray. It was mapped in 1958 by the Darwin Glacier party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition , and named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee...
, on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) and named for George R.M. Murray, temporary director of the scientific staff of the expedition, who had accompanied the Discovery as far as Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
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