User:Paleorthid/Sandbox/Nimrod Glacier

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The Nimrod Glacier is "a major glacier"[1] about 135 km ("85 mi"[1]) "long"[1], "flowing from the polar plateau in a northerly direction" through the Transantarctic Mountains "between the Geologists and Miller Ranges, then northeasterly between the Churchill Mountains and Queen Elizabeth Range, and finally spilling into Shackleton Inlet and the Ross Ice Shelf between Capes Wilson and Lyttelton."[1]

"It was photographed from the air by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47. The name, given by US-ACAN, is in association with Shackleton Inlet and is for the Nimrod, the ship of the"[1] British Antarctic Expedition[1] "(1907-09) under"[1] Ernest Shackleton[1].

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Query form for Antarctica. Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
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Compare to original text from PD source: A major glacier, about 85 mi long, flowing from the polar plateau in a northerly direction between the Geologists and Miller Ranges, then northeasterly between the Churchill Mountains and Queen Elizabeth Range, and finally spilling into Shackleton Inlet and the Ross Ice Shelf between Capes Wilson and Lyttelton. It was photographed from the air by USN OpHjp, 1946-47. The name, given by US-ACAN, is in association with Shackleton Inlet and is for the Nimrod, the ship of the BrAE (1907-09) under Shackleton.