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Fuchs Dome

Large ice-covered dome in Antarctica

Field	Value
map	Antarctica
elevation_m	1525
location	Coats Land, Antarctica
range	Shackleton Range
coordinates

Fuchs Dome () is a large ice-covered dome rising over 1,525 m, between Stratton Glacier and Gordon Glacier in the central part of the Shackleton Range, Antarctica.

Exploration

It was first mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) and named for Sir Vivian E. Fuchs, leader of the CTAE 1955–58.

Topology

The Shackleton Range is an ice-covered plateau between 1200 and high that rises between two large glaciers. It is a rectangular horst rising above major fault zones now under the Slessor Glacier to the north and Recovery Glacier glacier to the south. The center of the range is covered by a long ice cap stretching from the Fuchs Dome in the west to Shotton Snowfield in the east, and bounded by cliffs as high as 400 m.

Fuchs Dome extends from Stratton Glacier east to Crossover Pass, where the plateau narrows to under 1 km in width. It has an average height of around 1500 m, and gradually slopes to the north down to 1100 to. There are steep ice slopes along the margins of the plateau, which often have crevasses and in some places have ice falls. The plateau surface is a discontinuous and faulted undulating peneplain, most visible on the south of the range. The flat areas free of ice at the edge of the Fuchs Dome and Shotton Snowfield and the table mountains that surround them are the remnants of the peneplain.

Features

Features surrounding the dome that are named on the 1983 United States Geological Survey map are (clockwise from west):

Stratton Glacier

Main article: Stratton Glacier

Lister Heights

Main article: Lister Heights

Flat Top

Main article: Flat Top (Coats Land)

Petersen Peak

Main article: Petersen Peak

Clarkson Cliffs

Main article: Clarkson Cliffs

Gordon Glacier

Main article: Gordon Glacier

Clayton Ramparts

Main article: Clayton Ramparts

Genghis Hills

Main article: Genghis Hills

References

Sources

{{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G.
{{citation |url=https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/28347/1/Polarforsch1993_2-3_6.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-05 |work=Polarforschung |volume=63 |issue=213 |pages=183-201
{{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C80020s1_Ant.Map_Shackleton_Range.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-04
{{citation |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/266986433.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-06

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