Bennett Platform (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bennett Platform (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Platform (2h)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
An elongated, nearly flat and narly snow-free table of dark rock, about 5 miles long in a north-west - south-east direction and about 4 miles wide, lying just north east of the summit of Mt Black, on the west side of the Shackleton Glacier, near its head. Discovered and photographed by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47, on the flights of 16 February 1947 and named by the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Floyd Bennett, co-pilot on the Byrd North Pole Flight of May 1926.
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