Baileyrants
| Baileyrants | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Mannefallknausane in Maudheimvidda | |
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| Coordinates | 74 ° 37 ′ S , 14 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Baileyranten ( Norwegian ) are a mountain range from Nunatakkern in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is the westernmost three mountain ridges of the Mannefallknausane in Maudheimvidda . The others are the Wildskorvene and the Wilsonberga .
Norwegian scientists named it after the glaciologist Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941-1965) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who died on October 12, 1965 together with two other scientists when their snowmobile fell into a crevasse in Tottanfjella .
Web links
- Baileyranten in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)