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Foster Plateau is a plateau, about in area, lying between Drygalski Glacier and Hektoria Glacier in northern
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 ...
, Antarctica. It borders
Forbidden Plateau The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly plateau in the east of the Vancouver Island Ranges in British Columbia, northwest of Comox Lake roughly between Mount Albert Edward to the southwest and Mount Washington to the northeast. Geography The pl ...
on the south and Herbert Plateau on the north. The feature was photographed by the
Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Funded by the Colonial ...
in 1956–57 and mapped from these photos by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic o ...
(FIDS). It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
in 1960 for Richard A. Foster, FIDS leader of the Danco Island station in 1956 and 1957.


Central plateaus of Graham Land

North to south: * Laclavère Plateau *
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 ...
* Herbert Plateau * Foster Plateau *
Forbidden Plateau The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly plateau in the east of the Vancouver Island Ranges in British Columbia, northwest of Comox Lake roughly between Mount Albert Edward to the southwest and Mount Washington to the northeast. Geography The pl ...
* Bruce Plateau *
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 ...


Further reading

* Damien Gildea,
Antarctic Peninsula - Mountaineering in Antarctica: Travel Guide
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References

Plateaus of Antarctica Landforms of Graham Land Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub