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Midnight Plateau () is a prominent ice-covered plateau, over high, forming the central feature of the
Darwin Mountains The Darwin Mountains is a group of mountains between the Darwin and Hatherton glaciers in Antarctica. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for Major Leonard Darwin, at that time Honorary Secretary of the R ...
in
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. It is the only area of snow accumulation in the Darwin Mountains. The plateau was discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition of 1962–63 and so named because the feature was visited by expedition members at midnight on December 27, 1962.


Further reading

* Gunter Faure, Teresa M. Mensing, '
The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water
'', P 298


References

Plateaus of Oates Land East Antarctica {{OatesLand-geo-stub