Bennett Platform
mesa on Shackleton Glacier, Antarctica
Bennett Platform (85°13′S 177°50′W) is a high, nearly flat, snow-free mesa of dark rock of Antarctica, about 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) long and 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) wide, located immediately east of Mount Black, on the west side of Shackleton Glacier.
Discovery and naming
Bennett Platform was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), on the flights of February 16, 1947, and named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Floyd Bennett, copilot on the Byrd North Pole Flight of May 1926.
Location
Bennett Platform is on the west side of Shackleton Glacier opposite the point where Logie Glacier joins it from the east through a gap in the Cumulus Hills.
Gallup Glacier runs along its north side.
Features include Mount Black in the west and Matador Mountain in the east.
Nearby features include Mount Rosenwald to the northwest, Mount Heekin to the north and Half Century Nunatak to the south.
Features and nearby features
Mount Black
85°14′S 178°22′W.
A prominent mountain, 3,005 metres (9,859 ft) high, with a gentle snow-covered slope on its southwest side and a steep rock face on its northwest side, forming a part of the polar escarpment just west of Bennett Platform and the upper reaches of Shackleton Glacier.
Discovered and photographed by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his return flight from the South Pole in November 1929, and named by him for Van Lear Black, American financier and contributor to ByrdAE of 1928-30 and 1933-35.
Kitching Ridge
85°12′S 177°06′W.
A prominent rock ridge on the west side of Shackleton Glacier, between Bennett Platform and Matador Mountain.
Named by US-ACAN for South African vertebrate paleontologist James W. Kitching who first found fossils here.
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