Bruce Plateau

Plateau in Antarctica

Bruce Plateau (66°S 64°W / 66°S 64°W / -66; -64) is an ice-covered plateau, at least 90 nautical miles (170 km) long and about 1,830 metres (6,000 ft) high, extending northeast from the heads of Gould Glacier and Erskine Glacier to the vicinity of Flandres Bay, in Graham Land. It borders Avery Plateau on the south and Forbidden Plateau on the north. The first sighting of this plateau has not been ascertained, but it was presumably seen in January 1909 by members of the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot from their position in Pendleton Strait. The plateau was mapped from aerial photographs and from Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveys, 1946–62, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after William S. Bruce, a Scottish polar explorer and leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1902–04.^[1]

References

^ "Bruce Plateau". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-09-22.

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Coasts and plateaus of the Antarctic Peninsula

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West coast

Graham Land	Trinity Peninsula Cape Kjellman Davis Coast‎ Cape Sterneck Danco Coast Cape Renard Graham Coast‎ Cape Bellue Loubet Coast Bourgeois Fjord Fallières Coast‎ Cape Jeremy
Palmer Land	Cape Jeremy Rymill Coast Buttress Nunataks English Coast Eklund Islands
Ellsworth Land	Eklund Islands English Coast Rydberg Peninsula

East coast

Graham Land	Trinity Peninsula Cape Longing Nordenskjöld Coast‎ Cape Fairweather Oscar II Coast‎ Cape Alexander Foyn Coast Cape Northrop Bowman Coast‎ Cape Agassiz
Palmer Land	Cape Agassiz Wilkins Coast Cape Boggs Black Coast Cape Mackintosh Lassiter Coast Cape Adams
Ellsworth Land	Cape Adams Orville Coast Cape Zumberge Zumberge Coast Hercules Inlet