Hall Flat
| Hall Flat | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Allan Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 40 ′ S , 159 ° 50 ′ E | |
Halle Flat is a relatively flat high plateau in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Allan Hills , the plain lies immediately south of Coxcomb Peak .
It was explored in 1964 by a team working in the Allan Hills as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program . This she named after the Swedish palaeobotanist and geologist Thore Gustaf Halle (1884-1964), who had studied the plant fossils discovered during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) , the analysis of which was added to the scientific report of the research trip in 1913.
Web links
- Halle Flat in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Halle Flat on geographic.org (English)