Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An fara ganin wannan tudu a cikin 1903 yayin "Ganowa" Tafiya zuwa Antarctic, wanda Robert Falcon Scott ya jagoranta. Ernest Shackleton ya zama na farko da ya ƙetare sassan wannan tudun a shekara ta 1909 a lokacin tafiyarsa mai suna "Nimrod"
, wanda ya koma baya a cikin mummunan yanayi lokacin da ya kai wani batu kawai 97 nautical mil daga Kudancin Kudancin. Shackleton ya sa wa wannan tudun suna King Edward VII Plateau don girmama Sarkin Ingila. A watan Disamba na 1911, yayin dawowa daga tafiya ta farko zuwa Kudancin Kudancin, mai binciken Norway Roald Amundsen ya yanke shawarar kiran wannan tsaunin King Haakon VII Plateau don girmama sabon Sarki Haakon VII na Norway.