Southern Cross Subglacial Highlands
| Southern Cross Subglacial Highlands | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 0 ′ S , 147 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Southern Cross subglacial highlands comprise a group of high plateaus that are completely covered by continental glacial ice . In Wilkesland these plateaus are located east of the Webb subglacial rift at the northern end of the Wilkes subglacial basin .
Its extent was determined by sonar tracking as part of a joint program of the Scott Polar Research Institute , the National Science Foundation and Denmark's Technical University between 1967 and 1979. It is named after the Southern Cross , the ship of the Norwegian polar explorer Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink during the Southern Cross Expedition (1898–1900).
Web links
- Southern Cross Subglacial Highlands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Southern Cross Subglacial Highlands on geographic.org (English)