Vella Flat is a coastal flat to the south of Lake Cole

Lake Cole

Lake Cole is an ice-covered lake long, located south of Mount Ewart and Mount Melania on Black Island in the Ross Archipelago. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after J.W. Cole, Department of Geology, Victoria University of Wellington, who, with A. Ewart, investigated the...

 in the northwest part of Black Island

Black Island (Ross Archipelago)

Black Island , in the Ross Archipelago, is immediately west of White Island. It was first named by the Discovery Expedition because of its lack of snow. The island's northernmost point is named Cape Hodgson, commemorating Thomas Vere Hodgson .The highest point is Mt. Aurora, a prinicple...

, Ross Archipelago

Ross Archipelago

Ross Archipelago is a convenient name for that group of islands which, together with the ice shelf between them, forms the eastern and southern boundaries of McMurdo Sound. The most northerly is Beaufort Island, then comes Ross Island, the Dellbridge Islands, and Black Island and White Island...

. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) (1999) after Professor Paul Vella, Department of Geology, Victoria University

Victoria University

Victoria University may refer to:* Victoria University, Australia, Melbourne, Australia* Victoria University of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh* University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada...

 of Wellington, who made a reconnaissance survey of Brown Peninsula

Brown Peninsula

Brown Peninsula is a nearly ice-free peninsula, long and wide, which rises above the Ross Ice Shelf northward of Mount Discovery, to which it is connected by a low isthmus. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, which named it "Brown Island" because of its color...

 and Black Island stratigraphy with the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1964-65.