Taylor Dome is an elliptical ice dome

Ice cap

An ice cap is an ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area . Masses of ice covering more than 50 000 km² are termed an ice sheet....

, 43 nautical miles (80 km) long ESE-WNW and 16 nautical miles (30 km) wide, rising to 2,400 m, centered about 29 nautical miles (50 km) west-northwest of Mount Crean

Mount Crean

Mount Crean is one of the westernmost peaks in the dry valley region of South Victoria Land in Antarctica. It lies at , rises to , and is the highest summit in the Lashly Mountains...

, Lashly Mountains

Lashly Mountains

Lashly Mountains is a small group of mountains, the most prominent being Mount Crean , standing south of the head of Taylor Glacier and west of Lashly Glacier, in Oates Land. Discovered by the Discovery expedition and named for William Lashly, a member of the party which explored this area....

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. The feature was delineated by the Scott Polar Research Institute

Scott Polar Research Institute

The Scott Polar Research Institute is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge ....

 (SPRI)-National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

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 (NSF)-Technical University of Denmark

Technical University of Denmark

The Technical University of Denmark , often simply referred to as DTU, is a university just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's first polytechnic, and is today ranked among Europe's leading engineering institutions, and the...

 (TUD) airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79. The name was first used by David J. Drewry of SPRI in 1980. The dome is one of the local sources of ice to the Taylor Glacier

Taylor Glacier

The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range...

, from which it is named. Approved by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

(US-ACAN) in 1994.