Bruce Plateau
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 0 ′ S , 64 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Bruce Plateau is an icy, 144 km long and up to 1830 m high plateau in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends from the head end of the Gould Glacier and the Erskine Glacier to the northeast to the vicinity of the Flanders Bay .
Probable discoverer of the plateau is the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , leader of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910), who saw it in January 1909 from the Pendleton Strait . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out the mapping between 1946 and 1962 using aerial photographs. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the plateau after the Scottish polar explorer William Speirs Bruce (1867-1921).
Web links
- Bruce Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bruce Plateau on geographic.org (English)