Antarctic Plateau: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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Encyclopedia: Antarctic Plateau

The Antarctic Plateau is an area of the Antarctic continent, extending for a few hundred kilometres around the South Pole. It is at an average elevation of close to 3000 metres (10,000 feet).

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How to say "Antarctic Plateau" in other languages:

	(French)	Plateau Antarctique
	(Italian)	Plateau antartico

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Beardmore Glacier

Ernest Shackleton during his Nimrod Antarctic expedition of 1908, and named after the expedition's sponsor. The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Trans-Antarctic Mountains to the Antarctic Plateau, and thus made the early conquest of the South Pole possible...

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Roald Amundsen

, up the Beardmore Glacier to the Antarctic Plateau. Amundsen would have to find his own path... Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition in 1911--1912 which first reached the... joined the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897--1899) as second mate. Led by Adrien de Gerlache, their...

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