Kelly plateau
| Kelly plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 24 ′ S , 159 ° 30 ′ E | |
 Map sheet with the KELLY PLATEAU northwest of STARSHOT GLACIER |
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The Kelly Plateau is a 25 km long, 3 to 6.5 km wide and ice-covered high plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It lies between the lower sections of the Jorda and Flynn Glaciers on the east side of the Churchill Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after George R. Kelly (* 1923) of the United States Navy , commander of the VX-6 squadron during Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.
Web links
- Kelly Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kelly Plateau on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 843 (English).