Laclavere Plateau
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Laclavere Plateau is a plateau, 10 nautical miles (18 km) long and from 1 to 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide, rising to 1,035 m between Misty Pass
Misty Pass
Misty Pass is a pass, 700 m high, between the head of Broad Valley and Ogoya Glacier descending north to Bransfield Strait, situated 8 nautical miles southeast of Cape Ducorps on Trinity Peninsula...

 and Theodolite Hill
Theodolite Hill
Theodolite Hill is a hill, 680 m, with a small rock outcrop at its summit, standing at the southeast corner of a plateau-type mountain 5 nautical miles west of the northwest end of Duse Bay, in the northeast part of Trinity Peninsula...

, Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula
Schmidt Peninsula
Schmidt Peninsula is a small peninsula connected by a low isthmus to Cape Legoupil, Trinity Peninsula. Named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition of 1947-48 for Captain Hugo Schmidt Prado, Chilean Army, the first commander of Base Bernardo O'Higgins established in 1948 on this peninsula.-Map:* ...

 and the Chilean scientific station, General Bernardo O'Higgins. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) (1963) after Georges R. Laclavere, a French cartographer and President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1958-63.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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