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unusual facts about West Antarctica



Charles R. Bentley

In 1957, he and a handful of other scientists including Mario Giovinetto set out on an expedition across West Antarctica in tracked vehicles to make the first measurements of the ice sheet.

James F. Reilly

After receiving his bachelor of science degree in 1977, Reilly entered graduate school and was selected to participate as a research scientist specializing in stable isotope geochronology as part of the 1977-1978 scientific expedition to Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica.


see also

Fish Island

Fish Islands, a group of islands off the coast of West Antarctica

Geology of Antarctica

In West Antarctica conifer forests dominated through the entire Cretaceous period (146–65 Ma), though Southern beech began to take over at the end of this period.

Peronopsis

deons Jell and Webbers, 1992 has been collected in the Middle Cambrian of Antarctica (Triplagnostus gibbus-zone, Edson Hills, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica).