Bruce Plateau is an ice-covered plateau, at least 90 miles (144.8 km) long and about 1830 metres (6,003.9 ft) high, extending northeast from the heads of Gould Glacier

Gould Glacier

Gould Glacier is a glacier, long, on the east coast of Graham Land, flowing south-east into Mill Inlet, to the west of Aagaard Glacier. It was first surveyed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946–47, and named East Gould Glacier...

 and Erskine Glacier

Erskine Glacier

Erskine Glacier is a glacier 16 nautical miles long on the west coast of Graham Land, flowing west into Darbel Bay to the north of Hopkins Glacier. First surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946-47, and named West Gould Glacier...

 to the vicinity of Flandres Bay

Flandres Bay

Flandres Bay is a large bay lying between Capes Renard and Willems, along the west coast of Graham Land. Explored in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it, probably after the historical area of that name, now constituting part of France, Belgium and the Netherlands....

, in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. The first sighting of this plateau has not been ascertained, but it was presumably seen in January 1909 by members of the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

 under Jean-Baptiste Charcot from their position in Pendleton Strait

Pendleton Strait

Pendleton Strait is a strait between Rabot and Lavoisier Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. The French Antarctic Expedition, in accordance with Charcot's conception of this water feature, applied the name Pendleton Bay in January 1909. The British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, 1934–37,...

. The plateau was mapped from aerial photographs and from Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveys, 1946–62, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

 after William S. Bruce, Scottish polar explorer and leader of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition , 1902–04, was organised and led by William Speirs Bruce, a natural scientist and former medical student from the University of Edinburgh. Although overshadowed in prestige terms by Robert Falcon Scott's concurrent Discovery Expedition, the SNAE completed...

, 1902–04.