Name details

Bowling Green Plateau

Bowling Green Plateau (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Bowling Green Plateau  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140383

Feature type: Plateau

Origin

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:

Narrative

A prominent plateau of snow and ice approximately 13.5km north of Bastion Hill. It has a flat area of about 13km² to the 1700m contour, and rises to approximately 1800m, considerably higher than the Brown Hills, which it overlooks to the south. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MM06

Named For

Discovered and named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). Named after Bowling Green state University, Ohio, which allowed Professor Charles Clayton Rich (1922-2011) to join the expedition, in which he was deputy leader and glaciologist.

Location

Latitude:
79° 42' 00.0" S
-79.70000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
158° 36' 00.0" E
158.60000°
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Altitude:
1773 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MM06 : Edition 1.00 Published 2012
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
16-Jul-1964

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