Bard Knoll
| Bard Knoll | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 48 '42 " S , 68 ° 9' 9" E | |
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The Bard Knoll ( Russian Гора Плоская Gora Ploskaja ) is a small hill in the Prince Charles Mountains of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises at the northeast end of a mountain ridge that separates the Pagodroma Gorge from the Bardin Bluffs .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it based on the naming of the Bard Bluffs. It is named after the Soviet geoscientist W. I. Bardin, who carried out pioneering studies on glacial geology in the Prince Charles Mountains as part of several campaigns of Soviet Antarctic expeditions .
Web links
- Bardin Knoll in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)