Prentice Plateau
| Prentice Plateau | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Olympus Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 29 ′ S , 160 ° 37 ′ E | |
The Prentice Plateau is a 1850 m high and 15 km² large plateau in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range it lies west of Apollo Peak on the north side of the Upper Victoria Glacier . Apart from a few bare rocky outcrops, it is covered with ice.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the plateau in 2004 after Michael L. Prentice of the University of New Hampshire , who from 1983 worked for the United States Antarctic Program for a period of 15 years , including in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Prentice plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prentice Plateau on geographic.org (English)