Palisade Valley
Palisade Valley is a valley about 2 nautical miles long and 1,000 m high, dominated for its entire length by a large dolerite sill, situated at the southwest side of Pleasant Plateau and 3 nautical miles northeast of Bastion Hill in the Brown Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brown Hills and Relief Pass.
Brown Hills
Peak
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
The Brown Hills are a group of mainly snow-free hills in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica. Brown Hills is situated 3 km northeast of Palisade Valley.
Relief Pass
Mountain saddle
Relief Pass is a pass, about 1,000 m high, situated 1 nautical mile north of Bastion Hill in the Brown Hills. Explored by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, and so named by its members because of the relief it provided after ascent to this pass. Relief Pass is situated 4 km south of Palisade Valley.
Erewhon Basin
Valley
Erewhon Basin is an extensive ice-free area in Antarctica. It forms a basin in the Brown Hills separating the snouts of Foggydog Glacier and Bartrum Glacier from the northern edge of the Darwin Glacier. Erewhon Basin is situated 4 km southeast of Palisade Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pleasant Plateau and Bowling Green Plateau.
Pleasant Plateau
Locality
Pleasant Plateau is a small, somewhat isolated ice-free plateau located close west of Blank Peaks and Foggydog Glacier in the Brown Hills. Explored by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, who so named it because of the agreeable weather encountered there on each occasion the area was visited.
Bowling Green Plateau
Locality
Bowling Green Plateau is a small but prominent ice-covered plateau at the north side of the Brown Hills in the Cook Mountains in Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition; Professor Charles C. Bowling Green Plateau is situated 10 km north of Palisade Valley.
Palisade Valley
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 900 metres
- Description: valley in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Palisade Valley” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Palisade Valley”
- German: “Palisade Valley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palisade Valley”
- Swedish: “Palisade Valley”
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