Pleasant Plateau
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brown Hills.
Brown Hills
Peak
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
The Brown Hills are a group of mainly snow-free hills in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowling Green Plateau.
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 8 km north of Pleasant Plateau.
Pleasant Plateau
- Type: Locality
- Description: antarctic ice-free plateau
- Category: plateau
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-79.77175° or 79° 46′ 18″ southLongitude
158.49564° or 158° 29′ 44″ eastOpen location code
2RGW6FHW+87OpenStreetMap ID
node 11052560435OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q7203920
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Pleasant Plateau” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pleasant Plateau”
- Chinese: “普萊曾特高原”
- German: “Pleasant Plateau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pleasant Plateau”
- Swedish: “Pleasant Plateau”
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