Bartlett Bench
| Bartlett Bench | ||
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 152 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Bartlett Bench is a bare, flat, bank-like elevation in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises east of the Bartlett Glacier and 10 km south-southwest of Mount Ruth .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1964. The team that explored the Scott Glacier as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition between 1969 and 1970 named them in Based on the name of the glacier of the same name. Its namesake is the Canadian Arctic explorer Robert Bartlett (1875-1946).
Web links
- Bartlett Bench in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bartlett Bench on geographic.org (English)