Godfrey Upland
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 44 ′ S , 66 ° 22 ′ W | |
The Godfrey Upland is the small remnant of an undulating plateau of up to 1500 m in height in south-central Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is bounded by the Clarke , Meridian , Lammers and Cole glaciers .
The highlands have been known since the American polar explorers Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) traveled over the Meridian and Lammers Glaciers as part of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). During the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) the first aerial photographs were taken in 1947. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after the American inventor Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749) who, at the same time as the English astronomer and mathematician John Hadley , but independently of this, a quadrant (a forerunner in 1730) of the sextant ).
Web links
- Godfrey Upland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Godfrey Upland on geographic.org (English)