Name details

Festive Plateau

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140404

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 plateau, averaging 2440m above sea level, extending approximately 18km west from Mill Mountain, and some 7km wide just north of Mount Longhurst, in the Cook Mountains. The feature has sheer cliffs and icefalls to the north and south.

Named For

Named by two members of the Darwin Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) (1956-58) who spent Christmas Day 1957 on the plateau.

Location

Latitude:
79° 24' 00.0" S
-79.40000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
157° 30' 00.0" E
157.50000°
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Altitude:
2394 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 20_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
24-May-1961

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