Reeves plateau
| Reeves plateau | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Cook Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 35 ′ S , 158 ° 35 ′ E | |
The Reeves Plateau is a 13 km long and 6 km wide plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . The plateau is north of Bowling Green Plateau and west of Reeves Bluffs in the Cook Mountains . It rises from 1400 m to the east up to 1400 m near the Reef Bluffs.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the plateau in 2000 based on the naming of the Reeves Bluffs. Its namesake is Edward Ayearst Reeves (1862-1945), British navigation expert and responsible for maps at the Royal Geographical Society .
Web links
- Reeves Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reeves Plateau on geographic.org (English)