Bowling green plateau
| Bowling green plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 42 ′ S , 158 ° 36 ′ E | |
The Bowling Green Plateau is an icy, small, yet striking plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . The plateau is on the north side of the Brown Hills in the Cook Mountains .
Participants in the 1962 to 1963 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expeditions made a map. It is named after Bowling Green State University in Ohio , alma mater of the deputy expedition leader Charles C. Rich (* 1922).
Web links
- Bowling Green plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowling Green Plateau on geographic.org (English)