Ross Island and Vicinity (Topographic)

By: United States Geological Survey
Scale: 1:250,000
Size: 50” x 42” (Folded)
Contour Interval = 200M

This map covers all of Ross Island, Antarctica and the McMurdo Sound vicinity with details of McMurdo Station, and highlights of penguin rookeries, crevassed areas and other information. Also shown are McMurdo and Ross Ice Shelves, Beaufort, Black and White Islands, Mount Discovery and Minna Bluff.

The Antarctic continent is covered in the area of the entire Royal Society, Olympic and Asgard Ranges.  Glaciers include Koettlitz, Ferrar, Taylor, Mackay, Fry, and Wilson Piedmont.  The Dry Valleys are covered as well as Lakes Vanda, Bonney and Fryxell.

Sub-diagrams include: compilation, reference and adjoining map diagrams.

Mapped, edited and published by the US Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Science Foundation.
Compiled from US Navy tri-camera aerial photographs.
Hydrographic data by US Naval Oceanographic Office.