Geography Atlas

Where Everything Happened
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Switch Atlas

Region

Ellsworth Land

Polar and Circumpolar Regions

Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by the Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by the western margin of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. It is largely a high ice plateau, with the Ellsworth Mountains and several scattered mountain groups rising from it. The area west of 90 degrees west is unclaimed, the area between 84 and 90 degrees west is claimed by Chile alone, and the remainder is claimed by Chile and the United Kingdom as part of the British Antarctic Territory. The land is named for the American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who flew across the continent in 1935.

Facts
Classification
Region Type
Physiographic or Climatic Region 1
Connections

Shaped By

Glaciation, Physical Processes
Source Ellsworth Land (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Found There

Branscomb Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Dobbratz Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Drama Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Driscoll Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Gabare Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Gildea Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Henderson Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Isbrecht Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Kornicker Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Nimitz Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Plummer Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Razboyna Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Seal Glacier

Also in Earth and Environment Atlas: found in this subject.

Sources
1. Ellsworth Land (Wikipedia)
Introduction and infobox
Quote, Introduction and infobox
Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by the Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of the Antarctic Peninsula,
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.