Stanford Plateau
| Stanford Plateau | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 57 ′ S , 140 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Leverett Glacier map sheet from 1966, Stanford Plateau east of the center of the southern edge of the map |
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The Stanford Plateau is an approximately 3000 m high, ice-covered plateau with a diameter of about 25 km in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It lies between the Leverett and Kansas glaciers . In the south it merges into the central polar plateau and ends in the north at the Watson Escarpment .
The area was mapped by surveying work by the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the plateau in 1967 after Stanford University , from which numerous scientists came to explore Antarctica .
Web links
- Stanford plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stanford Plateau on geographic.org (English)