Pleasant plateau
| Pleasant plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 46 ′ S , 158 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Pleasant Plateau ( English for Pleasant Plain ) is a small and largely ice-free plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Brown Hills of the Cook Mountains , it lies west of the Blank Peaks and the Foggydog Glacier .
Participants in a 1962 to 1963 campaign of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions explored the plateau and named it after the consistently good weather conditions they encountered here.
Web links
- Pleasant Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pleasant Plateau on geographic.org (English)