Laclavère Plateau

Laclavère Plateau (-63.45°N, -57.78333°W) is a plateau, 10 nmi long and from 1 to 3 nmi wide, rising to 1,035 m between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme.

Location
Laclavère Plateau is in Graham Land towards the north of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is southeast of the Huon Bay, south of the Duroch Islands and Schmidt Peninsula, west of the Mott Snowfield and Duse Bay and north of Broad Valley. Named features include Misty Pass in the west and Theodolite Hill in the east.

Name
'Laclavère Plateau was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC; 1963) after French cartographer Georges R. Laclavère, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1958–63.

Features
Named features, from west to east, include:

Misty Pass
-63.48333°N, -57.98333°W. A pass, 700 m high, between the head of Broad Valley and a valley descending north to Bransfield Strait, situated 8 nmi southeast of Cape Ducorps. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1946, and so named because clouds pouring east through the pass had been noted by the survey party to herald bad weather.

Prilep Knoll
-63.4875°N, -57.97917°W An ice-covered hill rising to 713 m. Situated at the south entrance to Misty Pass west of Laclavère Plateau, 2.39 km east of Morro del Paso Peak, 1.41 km south by west of Dabnik Peak, 10.08 km west of Kanitz Nunatak and 6.72 km north of Yarlovo Nunatak. Surmounting Broad Valley to the southeast. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Prilep in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Dabnik Peak
-63.47528°N, -57.97139°W. A peak rising to 1038 m high off the west extremity of Laclavère Plateau on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated on the east side of Misty Pass, 14.2 km southeast  of Cape Ducorps, 11.14 km southwest of Ami Boué Peak and 9.81 km west-northwest of Kanitz Nunatak. Surmounting Broad Valley to the south and Ogoya Glacier to the NW. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the town of Dolni Dabnik in Northern Bulgaria.

Ami Boué Peak
-63.41694°N, -57.78972°W. A peak rising to 808 m high in the north extremity of Laclavère Plateau. Situated 8.79 km south-southeast of Mount Jacquinot, 11.14 km northeast  of Dabnik Peak, 8.43 km north of Kanitz Nunatak and 12.56 km west-southwest of Fidase Peak. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the French explorer of the Balkans Ami Boué (1794-1881).

Kanitz Nunatak
-63.4925°N, -57.77806°W. A rocky peak rising to 659 m high in the southern foothills of Laclavère Plateau. Situated 8.43 km south of Ami Boué Peak, 9.81 km east-southeast of Dabnik Peak, 6.15 km north of Cain Nunatak and 9.84 km west by south of Theodolite Hill. Overlooking Broad Valley to the S. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Kanitz in Northwestern Bulgaria, in connection with the Austro-Hungarian geographer and ethnographer Felix Kanitz (1829-1904).

Theodolite Hill
-63.48333°N, -57.58333°W. A hill, 680 m high, with a small rock outcrop at its summit, standing at the southeast corner of a plateau-type mountain 5 nmi west of the northwest end of Duse Bay, in the northeast  part of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by the FIDS, 1946, and so named during their survey of the area because it served as an important theodolite station.

Urguri Nunatak
-63.44111°N, -57.56944°W. A rocky hill rising to 574 m. Situated in the east foothills of Laclavère Plateau, 2.49 km west by north of Abrit Nunatak, 3.72 km north of Theodolite Hill and 7.5 km south of Fidase Peak. Overlooking Mott Snowfield to the north. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the ancient and medieval fortress of Urguri in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Abrit Nunatak
-63.44611°N, -57.51944°W. A rocky hill rising to over 556 m. Situated east of Laclavère Plateau and south of Mott Snowfield, 4.47 km northeast  of Theodolite Hill, 2.49 km east  by south of Urguri Nunatak, 8.2 km south by east  of Fidase Peak and 4.83 km southwest of Camel Nunataks. Overlooking Mott Snowfield to the north and Retizhe Cove to the SE. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Abrit in Northeastern Bulgaria.