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Kohl Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau, over high, standing between the heads of Keilhau Glacier and
Neumayer Glacier Neumayer Glacier is a glacier, long and wide, which flows east along the north flank of the Allardyce Range to the west side of the head of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Georgia. It was charted by the ...
in the central part of
South Georgia South Georgia is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. ...
. It was discovered and first indicated on a map by
Ludwig Kohl-Larsen Ludwig Kohl-Larsen (born ''Ludwig Kohl''; 5 April 1884 in Landau in der Pfalz – 12 November 1969 in Bodensee) was a German physician, amateur anthropologist, and explorer. Biography In 1911, he traveled as ship's doctor with Wilhelm Filchn ...
during his 1929–30 expedition; the plateau was surveyed and named for its discoverer by the
South Georgia Survey The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957. Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of t ...
, 1951–52.


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Landforms of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub