Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Foster Plateau

(Danco Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 45' S 61° W
SE of Charlotte Bay, Danco Coast, part of ice cap of N central Graham Land, rising to c.2150m, was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and surveyed and traversed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Portal Point', October-November 1957; named after Richard Arthur Foster (b.1929), the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Base Leader, 'Danco Island', 1956-58.