Mizuho plateau
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 30 ′ S , 39 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Mizuho Plateau ( Japanese み ず ほ 高 Mizuho Kôgen , in Norway Thorshavnheiane ) is an almost structureless and ice-covered plateau in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . The plateau is east of the Queen Fabiola Mountains and south of the Shirase Glacier .
A team from the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which ran from 1957 to 1961, explored it between November and December 1960 and named it after a mythological name for Japan .
Web links
- Mizuho Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mizuho Plateau on geographic.org (English)