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A rocky hill rising to 776 metres (2,546 ft) [4] high in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau. Situated in the west part of Zavera Snowfield, 2.73 kilometres (1.70 mi) south of Petkov Nunatak, 13.18 kilometres (8.19 mi) northwest of Mount Wild, 4.64 kilometres (2.88 mi) east-northeast of the summit of Kopito Ridge and 6.69 kilometres (4.16 mi) east-southeast of Lobosh Peak.
A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain. [ 1 ] Glaciers originate in snowfields.
Cuthbertson Snowfield) is a snowfield rising to 340 metres (1,120 ft) and covering the high ground of eastern Laurie Island (eastward of Watson Peninsula), in the South Orkney Islands It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1987 after William Cuthbertson , the artist on the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , led by W.S ...
Saint Mary's Glacier (or St. Marys) is a semi-permanent snowfield located in Arapaho National Forest in the U.S. state of Colorado. [2] Saint Mary's Glacier is 2.5 mi (4.0 km) southeast of James Peak , and about an hour drive northwest from Denver [ 3 ] The nearest community is the unincorporated Alice, Colorado and is accessible via a 1.6 mile ...
Falling diamond dust (Inari, Finland) Diamond dust is similar to fog in that it is a cloud based at the surface; however, it differs from fog in two main ways. Generally fog refers to a cloud composed of liquid water (the term ice fog usually refers to a fog that formed as liquid water and then froze, and frequently seems to occur in valleys with airborne pollution such as Fairbanks, Alaska ...
Shotton Snowfield. The Shackleton Range is an ice-covered plateau between 1,200 and 1,600 metres (3,900 and 5,200 ft) high that rises between two large glaciers. [2] It is a rectangular horst rising above major fault zones now under the Slessor Glacier to the north and Recovery Glacier glacier to the south. [3]
A peak 6 nautical miles (11 km) east of Mount Durnford. It rises to 1,770 metres (5,800 ft) on the ridge south of Cooper Snowfield. The peak was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Theodore J. Liard, Jr. (1918–2002), a geographer with the Department of Interior and the Department of Defense in toponymic research for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1949–80.
Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island. Etar Snowfield (Bulgarian: Ледник Етър, romanized: lednik Etar, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈɛtɐr]) is a roughly crescent-shaped snowfield on western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated west of Urdoviza, Medven and Berkovitsa Glaciers, northwest ...