Plane Table Glacier
Plane Table Glacier is a short, tapering glacier on the north side of Plane Table that extends part way down the south wall of Wright Valley, Victoria Land.- Type: Locality
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Plane Table”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colosseum Cliff and Brunhilde Peak.
Colosseum Cliff
Cliff
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin.
Brunhilde Peak
Peak
Mount Odin is the most prominent peak, though not the highest, in the Asgard Range, of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It rises over 2,000 m just south of Lake Vanda. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition for the Norse god Odin. Brunhilde Peak is situated 3½ km south of Plane Table Glacier.
Panorama Peak
Peak
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04. Panorama Peak is situated 3½ km south of Plane Table Glacier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dais and Linnaeus Terrace.
Dais
Locality
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Wright Valley is a large east–west trending valley, formerly occupied by a glacier but now ice free except for Wright Upper Glacier at its head and Wright Lower Glacier at its mouth, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Dais is situated 7 km northwest of Plane Table Glacier.
Linnaeus Terrace
Locality
Linnaeus Terrace is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.138 because it is one of the richest known sites for the cryptoendolithic communities that colonise the Beacon Sandstone. Linnaeus Terrace is situated 9 km west of Plane Table Glacier.
Plane Table Glacier
- Category: mesa
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-77.59533° or 77° 35′ 43″ southLongitude
161.45178° or 161° 27′ 6″ eastNamed after
plane tableOpen location code
2VJ3CF32+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 11052560428OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q7201010
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Plane Table Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Plane Table”
- Chinese: “普萊恩山”
- German: “Plane Table”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plane Table”
- Swedish: “Plane Table”
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