Stepup Col
Encyclopedia
Stepup Col is a snow-covered north-south running col linking Broad Valley
and Cugnot Ice Piedmont
, at the east end of Louis Philippe Plateau
, Trinity Peninsula
. The name given by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) is descriptive, as 100 ft in height is gained when the col is traversed in a northerly direction.
Broad Valley
Broad Valley is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following his survey in 1946....
and Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands...
, at the east end of Louis Philippe Plateau
Louis Philippe Plateau
Louis Philippe Plateau is a plateau, about 11 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide, which rises to 1,370 m and occupies the central part of Trinity Peninsula between Russell West Glacier and Windy Gap...
, 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 name given by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) is descriptive, as 100 ft in height is gained when the col is traversed in a northerly direction.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.