Kar plateau
| Forbidden plateau | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 56 ′ S , 162 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Kar Plateau is a mainly snow-covered high plateau on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . With an almost vertical dropout on the south side, it lies north of the Mackay Glacier estuary on the banks of Granite Harbor . At the north-western end it merges gently into the summit region of Mount Marston .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped and named it. It is named after the Turkish term "Kar" for snow .
Web links
- Kar Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kar Plateau on geographic.org (English)