Mount Bird

Mont Bird
Mont Bird
Location in Antarctica
Highest point
Elevation 1,765 m (5,791 ft)
Coordinates 77°16′S 166°45′E / 77.267°S 166.750°E / -77.267; 166.750Coordinates: 77°16′S 166°45′E / 77.267°S 166.750°E / -77.267; 166.750 
Geography
Continent Antarctica
State/Province Ross Dependency
Geology
Mountain type Shield Volcano

Mount Bird is a 1,765 m (5,791 ft) high shield volcano standing about 7 miles (11 km) south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and apparently named by them after Cape Bird.[1] Endeavour Piedmont Glacier lies on its slopes.

There are several western lobes of the Mount Bird icecap. One of these is Quaternary Icefall, which descends steeply into Wohlschlag Bay 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Cinder Hill. The site was mapped and so named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1958–59, because of the Quaternary glacial period marine shells carried by the glacier and deposited in terminal moraines.[2] Another such lobe is Shell Glacier.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Mount Bird". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
  2. ↑ "Quaternary Icefall". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
  • LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W. (eds.) (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union. pp. 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7.
  • Mount Bird, Volcano World


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