The Rawson Plateau is an ice-covered plateau, 15 miles (24.1 km) long and 3400 metre high, rising between the heads of Bowman Glacier

Bowman Glacier

Bowman Glacier is a deeply entrenched glacier, long, descending the polar plateau between Quarles Range and Rawson Plateau of the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf just west of the flow of Amundsen Glacier. It was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition...

, Moffett Glacier

Moffett Glacier

Moffett Glacier is a tributary glacier, 13 nautical miles long, flowing east from Rawson Plateau to enter Amundsen Glacier just south of Mount Benjamin, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the South Pole flight of November 28–29, 1929, and named by him for R. Admiral...

 and Steagall Glacier

Steagall Glacier

Steagall Glacier is a tributary glacier, 15 nautical miles long, draining the east slopes of Rawson Plateau between Mount Alice Gade and Mount Deardorff and flowing north to enter Bowman Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. First mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30...

 in the Queen Maud Mountains

Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...

. It was mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1928–30, and by the U.S. Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and named for Kennett L. Rawson, a contributor to the ByrdAE, 1928–30, and a member of the ByrdAE, 1933–35.