Antarctic Plateau fly over it. There are no land animals on Antarctic or Polar Plateau, except for nematodes, springtails, mites, midges, human beings and their laboratory animals. Antarctic Plateau The Antarctic Plateau, or Polar Plateau or Haakon VII Plateau, is a large area of East Antarctica which extends over a diameter of about , and includes the region of the geographic South Pole and the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. This huge continental plateau is at an average elevation of about high. This plateau was first sighted in 1903 during the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic, which was led by Robert Falcon Scott.
Ship-of-the-line captain in the United States Navy, and to the rank of captain at sea used in Germany and the Netherlands. Captain is rank OF-5 in the NATO rank codes, and equates to the land-forces rank of full colonel. "Linienschiffskapitän" was an officer rank in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, equivalent to "oberst" in the land forces or "kapitän zur see" in the "Kaiserliche Marine". It is still partly used by the navies of the Empire's successor states, such as Yugoslavia and Croatia. In order, the other officer ranks below ship-of-the-line captain were In the Belgian Navy the rank of "capitaine de vaisseau" or