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Marie Byrd Land

/ ˈmɑːrɪ ˈbɜːd /

noun

  1. the former name of Byrd Land
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

From BBC

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.

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

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

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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