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McMurdo LTER Project Overview (724 words) |
 | The McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER project is an interdisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica. |
| The McMurdo Dry Valleys are located on the western coast of McMurdo Sound (77°00'S 162°52'E) and form the largest relatively ice-free area (approximately 4800 square kilometers) on the Antarctic continent. |
| The overall objectives of the McMurdo LTER are to understand the influence of physical and biological constraints on the structure and function of dry valley ecosystems and to understand the modifying effects of material transport on these ecosystems. |
| McMurdo Base Antarctica (594 words) |
| The American McMurdo base is built on land beside the coast of continental Antarctica at the edge of McMurdo Sound, it is built at the southern end of Ross Island. |
| McMurdo shares Ross Island with the New Zealand Scott base and Mount Erebus, a 12,448ft (3,794m) active volcano as well as emperor penguin, adélie penguin and skua colonies. |
| McMurdo is at 77°55'S, 166°40'E between the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf - this is a floating area of freshwater ice fed by glaciers spilling off the continent of Antarctica and is approximately the size of France. |
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