Bromwich Terrace
| Bromwich Terrace | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 28 ′ S , 157 ° 13 ′ E | |
The Bromwich Terrace is a 2000 m high plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . The 11 km² area is located in the Cook Mountains between the 200 m higher Festive Plateau and the 845 m higher Mount Longhurst in the north and Starbuck Cirque and Mount Hughes in the south.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the plateau in 2001 after David H. Bromwich (* 1948) from the working group for polar meteorology at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University , who had carried out studies on the climate in Antarctica for over 20 years from 1978 .
Web links
- Bromwich Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bromwich Terrace on geographic.org (English)