The Forbidden Plateau () is a long, narrow plateau extending southwestward from
Charlotte Bay to
Flandres Bay in
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...
. It borders
Bruce Plateau on the south and
Foster Plateau on the north. The feature was mapped by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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(FIDS) from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57. Its name was picked by the
UK Antarctic Place-names Committee
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(UK-APC) because all attempts to reach the plateau failed until it was finally traversed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) members in 1957.
Central plateaus of Graham Land
North to south:
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Laclavère Plateau
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Louis Philippe Plateau Louis Philippe Plateau () is a plateau, about long and wide, which rises to and occupies the central part of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Russell West Glacier and Windy Gap. This application of the name, recommended by the UK Antarcti ...
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Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau () is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, with heights between . Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction ...
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Herbert Plateau
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Foster Plateau
* Forbidden Plateau
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Bruce Plateau
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Avery Plateau
Avery Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau, about long and rising to about , midway between Loubet Coast and Foyn Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It borders Hemimont Plateau on the south and Bruce Plateau on the north. The first sighting of th ...
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Hemimont Plateau
Hemimont Plateau ( bg, плато Хемимонт, plato Hemimont, ) is the long and narrow ice-covered plateau of elevation about 1600 m in southern Graham Land, Antarctica bordering Avery Plateau on the north. It is situated midway between Lo ...
See also
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Blue Icefalls
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Plateaus of Antarctica
Landforms of Graham Land
Danco Coast
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