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South Polar Plateau

Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111294

Feature type: Plateau

Origin

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:

• Polar Plateau (Russia)
• South Polar Plateau (New Zealand)

Narrative

the ice sheet sheet surrounding the South Pole (q.v.), with limits undefined but lying partly within BAT, and rising to c.2800m at the pole and c.3100m in Ross Dependency and AAT. In Janaury 1909, the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09 (Sir Ernest Shackleton), applied the name King Edward VII Plateau to the area between the head of Beardmore Glacier and the furthest S point reached in 88°23'S, 162°00'E, after Edward VII (1842-1910), King of England, 1901-10 (Shackleton, 1909, Vol.1, p.384 and end maps). In December 1911, the Third Norwegian Expedition in the Fram, 1910-12 (Capt. R. Amundsen), applied the name Kong Haakon VII Vidde or King Haakon VII Plateau to the area surrounding the South Pole, after Haakon VII(1872-1957), King of Norway, 1905-57 (Amundsen, 1912a, Bd. 2, p.122 and end map; 1912b,Vol.2, p.122; Fuchs and Hillary, 1958c, map p.6-7). Later the name South Polar Plateau came to be widely used for the area surrounding the pole (BA chart 1240, 10.vi.1927; Australia. DImap, 1939; USHO chart 2562, 1943; Helm, 1958, p.149; APC, 1962, p.29; BA, 1974, p.246;chart 3177, 21.viii.1981). Kong Hkon VII's Vidde (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Polar Plateau (Byrd,1930, end map; NGS map, 1957b). König Haakon VII.-Hochland (Breitfuss, 1943, Tafel 38), Sydpolplat et (Aagaard, 1947, p.878). Kong Haakon VII's Vidde, King Edward VII's Plateau (Kosack, 1957).

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