Byrd Land

[burd land]

noun

1. a part of Antarctica, southeast of the Ross Sea: discovered and explored by Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

Byrd Land

noun

1. Former name: Marie Byrd Land. a part of Antarctica, east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea: claimed for the US by Admiral Richard E. Byrd in 1929, though all claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959

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"There is a 3,000km section of coastline - including the Bellingshausen, Amundsen and Marie Byrd Land sections - that is clearly not properly modelled because that's where all the ice is coming from, and more ice than was expected," he explained.

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Earlier in his career, he took part in an expedition to Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, where the March temperatures hover around minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit.

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And West Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, where the plume is suspected to exist, is far from any such border regions.

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But in Marie Byrd Land, researchers found even more of that activity than the known regional heat sources could explain.

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Some would soar nearly four kilometers high. Volcanoes would cover Marie Byrd Land and skirt the Ross Ice Shelf, resembling dense volcanic clusters in East Africa.

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