5-469: Dyer Plateau ( 70°30′S 65°0′W / 70.500°S 65.000°W / -70.500; -65.000 ) 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 . It is buttressed by Goettel Escarpment . The plateau was first explored on land and photographed from the air by
10-583: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Palmer Land Palmer Land ( 71°30′S 065°00′W / 71.500°S 65.000°W / -71.500; -65.000 ) is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula , Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz . This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names and
15-560: The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee , in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69° S. In its southern extreme, the Antarctic Peninsula stretches west, with Palmer Land eventually bordering Ellsworth Land along
20-806: The US Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–41. It was named after J. Glenn Dyer , a surveyor with the then United States General Land Office , Department of the Interior . He was leader of the USAS surface party which sledged from Fleming Glacier southeast across the plateau to the Welch Mountains , and U.S. observer with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions during the 1956–57 season. This Palmer Land location article
25-564: The 80° W line of longitude. Palmer Land is bounded in the south by the ice-covered Carlson Inlet , an arm of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf , which crosses the 80° W line. This is the base of Cetus Hill . This feature is named after Nathaniel Palmer , an American sealer who explored the Antarctic Peninsula area southward of Deception Island in the sloop Hero in November 1820. This Palmer Land location article
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