Kent plateau
| Kent plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 44 ′ S , 157 ° 50 ′ E | |
 Map from 1963; Northern part of the Churchill Mountains with the Kent Plateau south of the Byrd Glacier |
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The Kent Plateau is an approximately 20 km long, 6.5 km wide and ice-covered high plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It stretches north from Mount Egerton and Kiwi Pass to the area around Mount Hamilton in the Churchill Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Commander Donald F. Kent of the United States Navy , logistics officer under Rear Admiral George J. Dufek in the first Operation Deep Freeze (1955-1956).
Web links
- Kent Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kent Plateau on geographic.org (English)