The Rockefeller Plateau in Antarctica is that portion of the interior ice plateau of Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land

Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...

 lying eastward of Shirase Coast

Shirase Coast

Shirase Coast is the north segment of the relatively ill-defined coast along the east side of Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea, lying between the north end of Siple Coast and Cape Colbeck. Named by NZ-APC in 1961 after Lieutenant Nobu Shirase , leader of the Japanese expedition, whose ship Kainan Maru...

 and Siple Coast

Siple Coast

Siple Coast is the middle portion of the relatively ill-defined coast along the east side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between the north end of Gould Coast and the south end of Shirase Coast . The area was originally called Kirton Coast, but was renamed by NZ-APC in 1961 after Paul A. Siple, a noted...

 and southward of the Ford Ranges

Ford Ranges

The Ford Ranges is a grouping of mountain ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica...

, Flood Range

Flood Range

The Flood Range is an Antarctic range of large snow-covered mountains extending in an E-W direction for about 96 km and forming a right angle with the southern end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land....

 and Executive Committee Range

Executive Committee Range

The Executive Committee Range is a range consisting of five major mountains, volcanic in origin, which trends north-south for along the 126th meridian west, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica....

, centering near the coordinates given above. Much of its extensive, ice-covered surface is from 1,000 to 1,500 m above sea level. It was discovered by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, in 1934, and named for John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and Standard Oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers...

, patron of the Byrd expeditions.