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Antarctic Plateau
The Antarctic Plateau (sometimes referred to as the Polar Plateau) is a large area of central Antarctica which extends over a diameter of about , and which includes the region of the South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. This plateau is at an average elevation of about .
==Exploration==
This plateau was first sighted in 1903 during the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic, which was led by Robert Falcon Scott. Ernest Shackleton became the first to cross parts of this plateau in 1909 during his Nimrod Expedition, which turned back in bad weather when it had reached a point just 97 nautical miles from the South Pole. Shackleton named this plateau the ''King Edward VII Plateau'' in honor of the King of the United Kingdom. In December 1911, while returning from the first journey to the South Pole, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen decided to name this plateau the ''Haakon VII Plateau'' in honor of the newly elected King Haakon VII of Norway.
The Antarctic Plateau was first observed and photographed from the air in 1929 from a Ford Trimotor airplane carrying four men on the first flight to the South Pole and back to the seacoast. The chief pilot of this flight was Bernt Balchen, a native of Norway, and the navigator and chief organizer of this expedition was Richard E. Byrd of Virginia, an officer in the U.S. Navy. The other two members of its crew were the co-pilot and the photographer.
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