Laclavère plateau
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| location | Trinity Peninsula , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 27 ′ S , 57 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Laclavère Plateau is an 15 km long, km 2-5 long and 1035 m high plateau in the north of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Trinity Peninsula , it is south of the Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean Bernardo O'Higgins Station between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1963 after the French cartographer Georges R. Laclavère (1906-1994), the president of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research from 1958 to 1963.
Web links
- Laclavère Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Laclavère Plateau on geographic.org (English)
- Laclavère Plateau on a topographic map of the Trinity Peninsula, Federal Cartography and Geodesy Office
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 890-891 (English).