Linnaeus Terrace
| Linnaeus Terrace | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Asgard Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 36 ′ S , 161 ° 5 ′ E | |
The Linnaeus Terrace is a 1600 m high-altitude plateau of weathered sandstone of the Beacon Supergroup in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range , this terrace is around 1.5 km long and 1 km wide, 1.5 km north of Oliver Peak .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in 1970. The biologist Imre Friedmann (1921-2007) from the Polar Research Center at Florida State University , who had examined the microbiological flora on this terrace in December 1980 , named them in Latinized form after the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné (1707–1778). The terrace forms the specially protected area of Antarctica No. 138 .
Web links
- Linnaeus Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Linnaeus Terrace on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ ASPA-138 . Secretariat information sheet for the Antarctic Treaty (accessed March 20, 2018).