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The Watson Escarpment continues east along the rim of the California Plateau past Beacon Dome and Mount Warden. [2] It continues below Maaske Dome and above Evans Butte. To the east of Mount Beazley there is a gap in the escarpment through which the Leverett Glacier flows north towards the Ross Ice Shelf. The escarpment continues east past ...
Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km 2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).
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<p>Chances are you make it through most days without sparing a thought for Antarctica. At just over 5.4 million square miles, it's a massive chunk of land that is nearly twice the size of ...
Modoc Plateau (3 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Plateaus of California" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The high, flat, and cold environment of the Antarctic Plateau at Dome C Surface of Antarctic Plateau, at 150E, 77S. The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about 1,000 kilometres (620 mi), and includes the region of the geographic South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.
Gothic Mountains in Antarctica The Gothic Mountains ( 86°00′S 150°00′W / 86.000°S 150.000°W / -86.000; -150.000 ) is a group of mountains , 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) long, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica , located west of Watson Escarpment and bounded by Scott Glacier , Albanus Glacier , and Griffith Glacier
The Leverett Glacier forms on the polar plateau to the west of the California Plateau. [2] The Stanford Plateau is to the east. It flows north through the Watson Escarpment between Mount Beazley to the west and McLean Peak to the east, then turns to flow in a north-north-west direction between the Tapley Mountains and Harold Byrd Mountains.