Rockefeller Plateau
| Rockefeller Plateau | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 0 ′ S , 135 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Rockefeller Plateau is a 1000 and interlocutory 1500 m high-lying plateau in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It is east of the Shirase and Siple coasts and south of the Ford Ranges , the Flood Range and the Executive Committee Range .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered them in 1934 during his second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935). He named it after John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960), the most important donor of his research trips.
Web links
- Rockefeller Plateau in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rockefeller Plateau on geographic.org (English)