Beardmore Glacier

- 83.75171Koordinaten: 83 ° 45 ' S, 171 ° 0' O

The Beardmore Glacier is located in Antarctica. It was discovered in December 1908 by Ernest Shackleton during the Nimrod expedition and after a financial backer of the expedition, William Beardmore, named.

According to the Lambert Glacier is more than 160 km long and up to 30 km wide Beardmore Glacier one of the largest glaciers in the world. It covers a catchment area of about one million square kilometers from the Polar Plateau through a glaciated valley between the Queen Alexandra and Commonwealth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains and flows at Mount Hope in the Ross Ice Shelf.

The Beardmore Glacier was the first passage, reached the Polar Plateau on the people from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Transantarctic Mountains. Shackleton chose the Beardmore Glacier, which looks like an inviting and easy to rising ramp at its mouth, as a route on his way to the South Pole, which he did not reach. About 180 km before reaching the target had to turn around he and his three companions. The same itinerary Robert Falcon Scott and his team arrived on January 18, 1912 to the South Pole, but only about a month after Roald Amundsen, who had advanced with his team over the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier to the polar plateau.