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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. This huge continental plateau is at an average elevation of about 3,000 metres ...
Map of Antarctica with Eastern Antarctica seen to the right. Image of a variety of ice types off the coast of East Antarctica. East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere south of the Indian Ocean, and separated from West Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains.
Nilsen Plateau: 3938 1500 Antarctic Plateau: East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Dome F: 3810 Dome F: East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Mount Menzies: 3355 Prince Charles Mountains: East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Dome C: 3233 Dome C: East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Jøkulkyrkja Mountain: 3148 [1] Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains: Fimbulheimen: Titan Dome: 3106 Antarctic Plateau ...
Dome A or Dome Argus is the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, located 1,200 km (750 mi) inland.It is thought to be the coldest naturally occurring place on Earth, with temperatures believed to reach −90 to −98 °C (−130 to −144 °F). [3]
The Antarctic plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and other surrounding oceans. After breakup from Gondwana (the southern part of the supercontinent Pangea ), the Antarctic plate began moving the continent of Antarctica south to its present ...
The following year, a party under expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott crossed into East Antarctica at a location now known as Ferrar Glacier, named after the geologist of the expedition. They explored part of Victoria Land on the Antarctic Plateau before returning via the same glacier.
The drilling site, called Little Dome C, is on the Antarctic plateau on the east of the continent, at almost 3000m elevation. A simple guide to climate change.
East Antarctica — 1 of the 2 main regions of Antarctica, with West Antarctica the other. ... Antarctic Plateau; D. Darwin Mountains; Dome A; E. East Antarctic Ice ...