Festive plateau
| Festive plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 24 ′ S , 157 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Festive Plateau is an ice-covered and 2200 m high plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . With a length of around 16 km and a width of around 5 km, it lies north of Mount Longhurst in the Cook Mountains .
It was named by two members of the Darwin Glacier Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958), who spent Christmas 1957 on the plateau.
Web links
- Festive Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Festive Plateau on geographic.org (English)