The Challenger Plateau is a large submarine plateau west of New Zealand and south of the Lord Howe Rise. It has an approximate diameter of 500 km (310 mi)...
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Look up challenger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Challenger, Challengers, The Challenger, or, The Challengers, may refer to: Challenger (character)...
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rupture and a southwestward extension of the Campbell Plateau relative to the Challenger Plateau. Southeast Indian Ocean Ridge expansion movement completely...
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In geology and physical geography, a plateau (/pləˈtoʊ, plæˈtoʊ, ˈplætoʊ/; French: [plato]; pl.: plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland...
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Lord Howe Rise (category Plateaus of Oceania)
The Lord Howe Rise is a deep sea plateau which extends from south west of New Caledonia to the Challenger Plateau, west of New Zealand in the south west...
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Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive, hot-tempered, dominating figure. Like Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was based on a real person—in...
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The Deccan is a large plateau and region of the Indian subcontinent located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as...
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geologic time. Campbell Plateau (South Pacific) Challenger Plateau (South Pacific) Exmouth Plateau (Indian) Falkland Plateau (South Atlantic) Lord Howe...
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plate-tectonic reconstructions place the Campbell Plateau together with the Lord Howe Rise, the Challenger Plateau, and the Ross Sea before the break-up of Gondwana...
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The Lost World (Doyle novel) (category Professor Challenger novels)
However, Challenger had really seen through the masquerade, and after confirming Malone’s scientific knowledge is non-existent, Challenger erupts in...
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South Tasman Rise and Challenger Plateau during the Cretaceous breakup of Gondwana. It is separated from the easterly Challenger Plateau by a 4,400 m (14,400 ft)...
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from the Louisville Seamount Chain in the north (26°S) to the Hikurangi Plateau in the south (37°S), north-east of New Zealand's North Island. Together...
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259 m (3,068–4,131 ft). It is distributed from as far north as the Challenger Plateau to as far south as the Snares Islands. The largest yet-examined specimen...
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The Antarctic Plateau, Polar Plateau or King Haakon VII Plateau is a large area of East Antarctica that extends over a diameter of about 1,000 kilometres...
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List of submarine topographical features (category Oceanic plateaus)
Plateau (South Pacific) Challenger Plateau (South Pacific) Agulhas Plateau (Southwest Indian) Caribbean–Colombian Plateau (Caribbean) Exmouth Plateau...
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been recorded from off East Cape to Kaikōura Canyon and from the Challenger Plateau near New Zealand. A single eastern Pacific specimen is known, collected...
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in hydrography. He is best known for being commander of HMS Challenger during the Challenger Expedition (1872–1876) under its commission captain, Sir George...
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The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It includes much of eastern...
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The Edwards Plateau is a geographic region forming the crossroads of Central, South and West Texas, United States. It is named in honor of Haden Edwards...
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The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal...
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The Chinese Loess Plateau, or simply the Loess Plateau, is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the...
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Three Kings Ridge (category Plateaus of Oceania)
Zealand species. Lord Howe Rise – Deep sea plateau from south west of New Caledonia to the Challenger Plateau, west of New Zealand Chatham Rise – An area...
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The Lost World (1925 film) (category Professor Challenger films)
the eccentric Professor Challenger in London. The journal features sketches of dinosaurs which is enough proof for Challenger to publicly announce that...
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The Lost World (TV series) (category Professor Challenger)
scientist whose initial exploration of the plateau instigates Challenger to launch his own expedition of the plateau to obtain proof of the prehistoric creatures...
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The Appalachian Plateau is a series of rugged dissected plateaus located on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Mountains are...
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The Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano (Spanish: Altiplano mexicano), is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that occupies much...
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The Swiss Plateau or Central Plateau is one of the three major landscapes in Switzerland, lying between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps. It covers...
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Formation (Mississippian) in Wooster, Ohio An Abyssothyris from the Challenger Plateau in the Pacific A Terebratalia transversa from California Taxonomy...
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The Kenn Plateau is a large piece of submerged continental crust off northeastern Australia that rifted from northeastern Australia about 63-52 mya, along...
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rupture and a southwestward extension of the Campbell Plateau relative to the Challenger Plateau. Southeast Indian Ocean Ridge expansion movement completely...
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