Antarctic Plateau 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. 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
Ship-of-the-line captain Ship-of-the-line captain Captain (French: "capitaine de vaisseau"; German: "linienschiffskapitän" (Austro-Hungarian Navy), "Kapitän zur See" (German and the Royal Netherlands navies); Italian Navy: "capitano di vascello"; Spanish Navy: "capitán de navío"; Croatian Navy: "kapetan bojnog broda") is a rank that appears in several navies. The name of the rank derives from the fact the rank corresponded to command of a warship of the largest class, the ship-of-the-line, as opposed to smaller types (corvettes and frigates). It is normally above the rank of frigate captain. Captain is equivalent to the naval rank of captain in most of the Commonwealth navies and captain