- Dyer Plateau
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From Creswick Peaks looking east to Dyer Plateau
Dyer Plateau (70°30′S 65°0′W / 70.5°S 65°WCoordinates: 70°30′S 65°0′W / 70.5°S 65°W) is a broad ice-covered upland of north-central Palmer Land, bounded to the north by Fleming Glacier and Bingham Glacier, and to the south by the Gutenko Mountains. The plateau was first explored on land and photographed from the air by the US Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939-41. Named after J. Glenn Dyer, surveyor with the then General Land Office, Dept. of the Interior; leader of the USAS surface party which sledged from Fleming Glacier southeast across the plateau to the Welch Mountains; U.S. observer with the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) during the 1956-57 season.
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