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Kent Plateau

Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica

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The Kent Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau in the northern extreme of the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica.

Name

Kent Plateau was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander Donald F. Kent, U.S. Navy, logistics officer to Admiral Dufek at the outset of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I, 1955–56.

Location

The Kent Plateau is an ice-covered plateau, 12 mi long and 4 mi wide, extending northward from Mount Egerton and Kiwi Pass to the vicinity of Mount Hamilton. The plateau is on the west of a ridge of mountains that runs north from Mount Durnford, dips at Kiwi Pass, then continues north from Mount Moa to Mount Hamilton along the east edge of the plateau. To the west of the plateau along the southeast edge of the Byrd Glacier there is a chain of mountains broken by glaciers that flow down from the plateau region to Byrd Glacier.

Glaciers

Several short glaciers run down from the plateau into Byrd Glacier. From southwest to northeast they are:

Zeller Glacier

Main article: Zeller Glacier

Sefton Glacier

Main article: Sefton Glacier

Twombley Glacier

Main article: Twombley Glacier

A glacier 6 mi long, flowing from the north side of the Kent Plateau into the south side of Byrd Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for C.E. Twombley of the U.S. Weather Bureau, a member of the Little America V winter party, 1956.

Brecher Glacier

Main article: Brecher Glacier

Judith Glacier

Main article: Judith Glacier

Nearby features to the east

Nearby features to the east include, from south to north:

Mount Morse

Kiwi Pass

Mount Moa

Mount Hamilton

Cupcake Peaks

Nearby features to the west and north

Satellite image of the plateau and surroundings

Nearby features to the west and north, along the southern edge of the Byrd Glacier, include from southwest to northeast, Keating Massif, Mount Fries, Zeller Glacier, Mount Rainbow, Sefton Glacier, the Rundle Peaks, Brecher Glacier, Mandarich Massif, Twombley Glacier, Blake Massif, Lowry Massif, Mount Tuatara, Judith Glacier, Mount Tadpole, the Miscast Nunataks and Couzens Saddle. Roberts Pike and Carr Crest are isolated features to the east of Lowry Massif.

Keating Massif

Mount Fries

A prominent peak, 1,985 m high, standing just south of the mouth of Zeller Glacier and being one of the westernmost summits along the south wall of Byrd Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for Robert H. Fries, aurora scientist at the South Pole Station, 1963.

Mount Rainbow

Rundle Peaks

Mandarich Massif

Blake Massif

Lowry Massif

Mount Tuatara

Mount Tadpole

Miscast Nunataks

Couzens Saddle

A saddle rising to approximately 500 m, between the Miscast Nunataks and Mount Madison at west and east, and Byrd Glacier and Couzens Bay at north and south. It was named at the suggestion of the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in association with Couzens Bay, which was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960–61) in honor of Lieutenant Thomas Couzens, Royal New Zealand Air Force, who lost his life in a crevasse accident near Cape Selborne on 19 November 1959.

Roberts Pike

Carr Crest

References

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