Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau

Plateau

In geology and earth science, a plateau , also called a high plain or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain. A highly eroded plateau is called a dissected plateau...

 of 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...

, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier is a glacier, 11 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula westward into Bone Bay on the north side of Trinity Peninsula...

, from which it extends some 90 miles (144.8 km) in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau

Herbert Plateau

Herbert Plateau is a portion of the central plateau of Graham Land, lying between Bleriot and Drygalski Glaciers. Photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the...

. The plateau was observed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins

Hubert Wilkins

Sir Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar was an Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer.-Early life:...

 on a flight of December 20, 1928. Wilkins named it "Detroit Aviation Society Plateau" after the society which aided in the organizing of his expedition but the shortened form of the original name is approved. The north and east sides of the plateau were charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1946-47. Dinsmoor Glacier

Dinsmoor Glacier

Dinsmoor Glacier is a glacier flowing east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, joining Edgeworth Glacier to the northeast of Mount Elliott. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

 is a glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

flowing east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau.