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(AGB-1), USS Atka (AGB-3), and USS Glacier (AGB-4) pushing an iceberg out of the channel in the "Silent Land" near McMurdo Station , Antarctica , 29 December 1965 .]] McMurdo Sound is a Sound about 55 km (35 mi) long and wide, lying at the junction of the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf between Ross Island and Victoria Land . Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in February 1841 and named after Lt. Archibald McMurdo of HMS ''Terror'' . The United States 's major Antarctic base, McMurdo Station , is located on Ross Island. |
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