Bartrum Plateau
| Bartrum Plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 6 ′ S , 160 ° 6 ′ E | |
The Bartrum Plateau is an icy, 18 km long and 10 km wide plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . The plateau is west of Mount Bonaparte in the Queen Elizabeth Range .
The northern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962) named it after the New Zealand geologist John Arthur Bartrum (1885–1949) from the University of Auckland .
Web links
- Bartrum Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bartrum Plateau on geographic.org (English)