Feature Name (see definition): Avery Plateau

Feature Class (see definition): Plain

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 772

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 66° 50' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 065° 30' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -66.8333333

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.5

Elevation (see definition): 2000

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1956

Description (see definition): Ice-covered plateau, about 40 mi long and rising to c. 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 (FrAE) under Charcot from various positions in Matha Strait. It was surveyed in 1946-47 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by UK 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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