Beardmore Glacier

[ beerd-mawr, -mohr ]

noun

1. one of the largest glaciers, in central Antarctica. About 125 miles (200 km) long.

Example Sentences

As he points out, “no previous Shackleton biographer has man-hauled a heavy sledge load through the great crevasse fields of the Beardmore Glacier.”

From New York Times

Fossilised forewings from a pair of beetles were discovered on the 200km-long Beardmore Glacier, near the Transantarctic Mountains.

From BBC

Glaciologists estimate it will be 60,000 years before the mouth of the enormous Beardmore glacier spits out those bones.

From Slate

The team loaded 35 pounds of these fossils onto their already packed sleds and pushed off down the Beardmore Glacier.

From Washington Post

He made up his mind that he would reach the plateau on which the Pole is situated by another route than that of Beardmore Glacier.

From Scientific American