Avery plateau
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 53 ′ S , 65 ° 26 ′ W | |
The Avery Plateau is an icy high plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It reaches heights of up to 2000 m and stretches for 63 km midway between the western Loubet coast and the eastern Foyn coast .
Presumably, the plateau was first sighted between January and February 1909 by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a geodetic survey between 1946 and 1947. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the plateau in 1955 after Captain George Avery, skipper of the cutter Lively , who reached this part of the Antarctic Peninsula in February 1832 together with Captain John Biscoe and his brig Tula .
Web links
- Avery Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Avery Plateau on geographic.org (English)