Cotton platform
| Cotton platform | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 54 ′ S , 159 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Cotton Plateau is a snowy plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range , it is located immediately east of the mouth of the Marsh Glacier in the Nimrod Glacier .
The northern group of a campaign lasting from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition made the name. It is named after the New Zealand geologist Charles Cotton (1885–1970).
Web links
- Cotton Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cotton Plateau on geographic.org (English)