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Less than 10 percent of McMurdo Sound's shoreline is free of ice. [3] During austral winter, McMurdo Sound presents a large expanse of surface ice. In summer, ships approaching the sound are often blocked by various amounts of first-year ice, fast ice (connected to the shoreline), and hard multi-year ice. Subsequently, icebreakers are required ...
Winter Quarters Bay is a small cove of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, located 2,200 miles (3,500 km) due south of New Zealand at 77°50'S. The harbor is the southernmost port [1] in the Southern Ocean and features a floating ice pier for summer cargo operations. The bay is approximately 250m wide and long, with a maximum depth of 33m.
Discovery Hut was built by Robert Falcon Scott during the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 in 1902 and is located at Hut Point on Ross Island by McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Visitors to Antarctica, arriving at either the US Base at McMurdo or New Zealand's Scott Base are likely to encounter Discovery Hut as both are located on Hut Point ...
A point at the north side of the entrance to Explorers Cove, New Harbor. Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after James B. McClintock, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, who studied the benthos of McMurdo Sound west of Ross Island and along the coast from Granite Harbor to Cape Chocolate, including extensive work in ...
Cape Royds) is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island, facing on McMurdo Sound, AntarcticaIt was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) (1901–1904) and named for Lieutenant Charles Royds, Royal Navy, who acted as meteorologist on the expedition.
Ross Island is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending 43 nautical miles (80 km; 49 mi) from Cape Bird in the north to Cape Armitage in the south, and a similar distance from Cape Royds in the west to Cape Crozier in the east. The island is entirely volcanic.
Ross Archipelago) is a name for that group of islands which, together with the ice shelf between them, forms the eastern and southern boundaries of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica The most northerly is Beaufort Island , then comes Ross Island , the Dellbridge Islands , and Black Island and White Island .
The Annual Sea-Ice Runway (ICAO: NZIR) [3] is a type of seasonal ice runway made on frozen McMurdo Sound for the U.S. Antarctic Program during the summer Antarctic field season in proximity to Hut Point Peninsula, which has McMurdo Station and Scott Base.