Barker Range
| Barker Range | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 32 ' S , 166 ° 10' E | |
 Map of the Freyberg Mountains and the Evans Firnfield , Monteath Hills , Millen Range and Barker Range on the right edge of the map |
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The Barker Range is a mountain range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends in a northwest-southeast direction on the southwest side of the Millen Range in the Victory Mountains . It includes the Jato-Nunatak , Mount Watt , Mount McCarthy and Mount Burton .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain range after Major James Richard Millton Barker (* 1926), commanding officer at Scott Base from 1970 to 1971 and manager of the New Zealand Antarctic Program from 1970 to 1986.
Web links
- Barker Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barker Range on geographic.org (English)