Lane Plateau () is a flat, ice-covered plateau that rises to between

Mount Waterman Mount Waterman is a ski area on Waterman Mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. The area is located on California State Route 2, the Angeles Crest Highway, and reaches a height ...

Mount Cartwright Mount Cartwright () is a sharp peak, high, surmounting a north–south trending ridge north-northwest of Mount Waterman in the Hughes Range. It was discovered and photographed by the United States Antarctic Service on Flight C of February 29 � ...

, and

Mount Bronk Mount Bronk () is a snow-covered mountain in the Hughes Range, a mountain range located in south-central Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circ ...

in the central Hughes Range of the

Queen Maud Mountains The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic P ...

, Antarctica. It trends north–south for and is wide. The plateau was discovered and photographed by R. Admiral Byrd on the Baselaying Flight of November 18, 1929, and surveyed by A.P. Crary, 1957–58. It was mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...

from surveys, 1962–63, and

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photography taken 1958–63. The plateau is named in honor of Neal Lane, Director of the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

(NSF) from 1993 to 1998. Under his leadership the NSF won congressional approval for rebuilding

South Pole Station South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

as a premier international science facility set to open at the beginning of the 21st century.

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Plateaus of Antarctica Landforms of the Ross Dependency Dufek Coast {{DufekCoast-geo-stub