Boucot Plateau
| Boucot Plateau | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| part of | Geologists Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 25 ′ S , 155 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Boucot Plateau is a small and icy high plateau in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It looms west of the Wellman Cliffs and south of the McKay Cliffs in the Geologists Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of tellurometer measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the American geologist and paleontologist Arthur Boucot (* 1924), who between 1964 and in 1965 served as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program at Byrd Station and in the Horlick Mountains .
Web links
- Boucot Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boucot Plateau on geographic.org (English)