Lexington Table (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lexington Table (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Plateau
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
ice-covered plateau in central Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, rising to c.1600m, was photographed from the air by USN, 13 January 1956, on a non-stop flight from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to the Weddell Sea and return during ODF, 1955-56; in association with Saratoga Table (q.v.), named after USS Lexington which was commissioned in 1926 as one of the first USN fleet carriers and which served in the Pacific Ocean in World War II ([in 83°25'S 49°30'W] NGS map, 1957b; USBGN, 1960, p.5; [correctly positioned] USGS sheet SU 21-25/14, 1969; APC, 1974, p.5). Gora Leksington-Teybl (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The feature was further photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground by USGS, 1965-66.
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