Avery Plateau

Avery Plateau

Avery Plateau (coord|66|50|S|65|30|W|) is an ice-covered plateau, about 40 miles (60 km) long and rising to about 2,000 m, midway between Loubet Coast and Foyn Coast in Graham Land. The first sighting of this plateau is not ascertained, but it was presumably seen in January and February of 1909 by members of the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot from various positions in Matha Strait. It was surveyed in 1946-47 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) (1955) after Captain George Avery, Master of the cutter "Lively", who, with Captain John Biscoe in the brig "Tula", approached this part of Antarctic Peninsula in February 1832.


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