Longhurst Plateau
| Longhurst Plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 23 ′ S , 156 ° 20 ′ E | |
The Longhurst Plateau is a snowy plateau in Antarctica's Ross Dependency . The 32 km long and up to 16 km wide plateau is 2200 m high in the Cook Mountains immediately west of Mount Longhurst and is bounded south by the upper section of Darwin Glacier and east by McCleary Glacier .
Participants of the team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) crossed the plateau between 1957 and 1958. They named it after the mountain of the same name. Its namesake is Cyril Longhurst (1878–1948), secretary of the British Discovery Expedition (1901–1904).
Web links
- Longhurst plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Longhurst Plateau on geographic.org (English)