Transantarctic

After the writing yesterday, and after the grand safari down to the stoop, I spent maybe an hour writing another new article for Wikipedia, this one on the temnospondyl amphibian Kryostega collisoni (from the Early or Middle Triassic of the Transantarctic Mountains).

"I don't sleep. I dream." greygirlbeast 2008

I read "Tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Antarctica," which demonstrates that fossil burrows found at Wahl Glacier in the Beardmore Glacier region of the central Transantarctic Mountains (Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness") were made by an animal similar to the cynodont Thrinaxodon.

Halloween the Fourth greygirlbeast 2008

On November 21, they discovered the Transantarctic range of mountains to the west of the ice shelf.

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration 2009

On November 21, they discovered the Transantarctic range of mountains to the west of the ice shelf.

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration 2009

They could travel to Nanda Devi if she pleased, and to Baffin Island, and the Transantarctic Mountains.

The Wall Jeff Long 2005

The continent consists, broadly speaking, of two geological zones divided by the Transantarctic mountain chain.

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains, by Edmund Stump, Yale University Press, 254 pages, $31

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Among the latest photographs on view, taken at the end of Shackleton's Transantarctic Expedition of 1914-16, are two that have been "doctored" to tell, in one case, an entirely mendacious tale.

Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011

It was in Scott's shadow and the greater shadow of world war that Shackleton's Imperial Transantarctic Expedition was performed between 1914 and 1917 - an even more Boy's Own endeavour.

Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011

Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains, by Edmund Stump, Yale University Press, 254 pages, $31

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