Louis Philippe Plateau
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 36 ′ S , 58 ° 21 ′ W | |
The Louis Philippe Plateau (in Argentina Cordón Angustia , in Chile Cordón Puga ) is a 17.5 km long and 6 km wide plateau on the Trinity Peninsula in the north of West Antarctic Graham Land . It is up to 1,370 m high and occupies the central part of the peninsula between the Russell East Glacier and the Windy Gap .
The designation made by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1948 is an adaptation of the designation of the French polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urvilles as Terre Louis Philippe during his Antarctic expedition (1837-1840) , during which he explored the area around the Trinity Peninsula. It is named after the French King Louis-Philippe I (1773–1850). The Argentine name means something like chain of grief , while the namesake of the Chilean name is the Chilean medic Federico Puga Borne (1855-1935).
Web links
- Louis Philippe Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Louis Philippe Plateau on geographic.org (English)