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Laclavère Plateau

Plateau in Antarctica

Field	Value
type	Plateau
map	Antarctica
map_relief	y
coordinates
location	Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land

Laclavère Plateau () is a plateau, 10 nmi long and from 1 to wide, rising to 1,035 m between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme.

Location

Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Laclavère Plateau towards northeast end

Laclavère Plateau is in Graham Land towards the north of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is southeast of the Huon Bay, south of the Duroch Islands and Schmidt Peninsula, west of the Mott Snowfield and Duse Bay and north of Broad Valley. Named features include Misty Pass in the west and Theodolite Hill in the east.

Name

Laclavère Plateau was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC; 1963) after French cartographer Georges R. Laclavère, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1958–63.

Features

Named features, from west to east, include:

Misty Pass

Prilep Knoll

An ice-covered hill rising to 713 m. Situated at the south entrance to Misty Pass west of Laclavère Plateau, 2.39 km east of Morro del Paso Peak, 1.41 km south by west of Dabnik Peak, 10.08 km west of Kanitz Nunatak and 6.72 km north of Yarlovo Nunatak. Surmounting Broad Valley to the southeast. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Prilep in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Dabnik Peak

Ami Boué Peak

Kanitz Nunatak

Theodolite Hill

Urguri Nunatak

Situated in the east foothills of Laclavère Plateau, 2.49 km west by north of Abrit Nunatak, 3.72 km north of Theodolite Hill and 7.5 km south of Fidase Peak. Overlooking Mott Snowfield to the north. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the ancient and medieval fortress of Urguri in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Abrit Nunatak

Situated east of Laclavère Plateau and south of Mott Snowfield, 4.47 km northeast of Theodolite Hill, 2.49 km east by south of Urguri Nunatak, 8.2 km south by east of Fidase Peak and 4.83 km southwest of Camel Nunataks. Overlooking Mott Snowfield to the north and Retizhe Cove to the SE. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Abrit in Northeastern Bulgaria.

References

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