The Detroit Plateau ( 64°10′S 60°0′W / 64.167°S 60.000°W / -64.167; -60.000 ( Detroit Plateau ) ) is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula , with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 metres (4,900 and 5,900 ft). Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier , from which it extends some 90 nautical miles (170 km; 100 mi) in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau .
11-867: The Detroit Plateau is in Graham Land towards the north of the Antarctic Peninsula , partly extending into the Trinity Peninsula . To the south of the Trinity Peninsula it is west of the Danco Coast , south of the Davis Coast and north of the Nordenskjöld Coast . At its south end it joins the much smaller Herbert Plateau . At its north end it is separated from the Louis Philippe Plateau by
22-698: Is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica . The committee was established in 1943 as the Special Committee on Antarctic Names (SCAN). It became the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1947. Fred G. Alberts was Secretary of the Committee from 1949 to 1980. By 1959, a structured nomenclature
33-628: The Russell West Glacier . The Detroit Plateau was observed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins on a flight of December 20, 1928. Wilkins named it Detroit Aviation Society Plateau after the society which aided in the organizing of his expedition, but the shortened form of the original name is approved. The north and east sides of the plateau were charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1946–47. Download coordinates as: Major glaciers flowing from
44-572: The United States Geological Survey . Graham Land 66°00′S 63°30′W / 66.000°S 63.500°W / -66.000; -63.500 Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz . This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and
55-539: The US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names , in which the name "Antarctic Peninsula" was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica , and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69 degrees south. Graham Land is named after Sir James R. G. Graham , First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of John Biscoe 's exploration of
66-651: The area Tierra de San Martín (Land of San Martin) and also calls the northern peninsula ( Trinity Peninsula ) Península Trinidad or Tierra de la Trinidad . Similarly, Chile calls the entire Antarctic Peninsula Tierra de O'Higgins (Land of O'Higgins). The interior of Graham Land is occupied by a series of plateaus, namely (north to south) Laclavère Plateau , Louis Philippe Plateau , Detroit Plateau , Herbert Plateau , Foster Plateau , Forbidden Plateau , Bruce Plateau , Avery Plateau and Hemimont Plateau . Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( ACAN or US-ACAN )
77-542: The discoveries of the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–1937, it was generally supposed to be an archipelago rather than a peninsula. The mountains of Graham Land are the last range of the American Cordillera , the almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges forming the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America and the Antarctic Peninsula . Argentina calls
88-668: The southeast side of the Trinity Peninsula , Antarctic Peninsula . Named after the settlement of Kondofrey in western Bulgaria . 64°31′S 60°56′W / 64.517°S 60.933°W / -64.517; -60.933 . The very narrow neck of land between Herbert and Detroit Plateaus. Photographed by the FIDASE in 1956-57 and mapped from these photos by the FIDS. So named by the UK-APC in 1960. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of
99-834: The west side include Russell West Glacier , Pettus Glacier , McNeile Glacier , Sabine Glacier , Sikorsky Glacier , Trepetlika Glacier and Cayley Glacier . Major glaciers flowing from the east side include Victory Glacier , Aitkenhead Glacier , Sjögren Glacier , Eliason Glacier , Polaris Glacier , Pyke Glacier , Albone Glacier , Edgeworth Glacier , Desudava Glacier , Boryana Glacier , Darvari Glacier , Zaychar Glacier , Akaga Glacier , Arrol Icefall , Aleksiev Glacier , Kladorub Glacier , Vrachesh Glacier and Drygalski Glacier . Other features, from north to south, include: 63°50′00″S 58°34′00″W / 63.83333°S 58.56667°W / -63.83333; -58.56667 ( 'Kondofrey Heights ) . Heights that rise to 1,115 metres (3,658 ft) at Skakavitsa Peak, on
110-599: The west side of Graham Land in 1832. It is claimed by Argentina (as part of Argentine Antarctica ), Britain (as part of the British Antarctic Territory ) and Chile (as part of the Chilean Antarctic Territory ). Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America. Thus it is the usual destination for small ships taking paying visitors on Antarctic trips from South America . (Larger ships are not allowed to disembark passengers.) Until
121-454: Was reached, allowing for further exploration, structured mapping of the region and a unique naming system. A 1990 ACAN gazeeter of Antarctica listed 16,000 names. The United States does not recognise territorial boundaries within Antarctica, so ACAN assigns names to features anywhere within the continent, in consultation with other national nomenclature bodies where appropriate, as defined by
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