Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Grindley Plateau (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Grindley Plateau (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Plateau (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:
A high plateau in the central Queen Alexandra Range, approximately 200 square miles in extend and varying from 2700 to over 3900m in elevation. It is bordered by the peaks of Bell, Mackellar and Kirkpatrick. Named by the Northern Party of the NZGSAE, 1961-62, for George Grindley, a senior geologist of the party.
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