Lane plateau

Lane plateau
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
part of	Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 23 ′ S , 175 ° 26 ′ E Coordinates: 84 ° 23 ′ S , 175 ° 26 ′ E

The Lane Plateau is a flat and icy plateau in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the center of the Hughes Range of the Queen Maud Mountains , it lies at an altitude of 3000 m between Mount Waterman , Mount Cartwright and Mount Bronk . The plateau extends in a north-south direction over a length of 18 km and is 4 km wide.

The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered it during his first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) during an overflight on November 18, 1929. The American polar explorer Albert P. Crary carried out measurements between 1957 and 1958. The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its surveys carried out between 1962 and 1963 and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1958 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2000 after the US physicist Neal Francis Lane (* 1938), Director of the National Science Foundation from 1993 to 1998, during whose tenure the United States Congress approved funds for the construction of a new South Pole Station , which was finally completed between 2005 and 2006.

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