Barton Mountains
| Barton Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Tricorn Mountain ( 3475 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 2 ′ S , 173 ° 0 ′ E | |
 Map sheet The Cloudmaker from 1965 (new edition 1988), northern part of the Barton Mountains in the middle of the southern edge of the map |
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The Barton Mountains are a mountain range of the Queen Maud Mountains in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . They include Mount Usher , Graphite Peak , Tricorn Mountain, and Mount Clarke . They rise south of the Commonwealth Range and the Hughes Range and are bounded by the Keltie , Brandau , Leigh Hunt and Snakeskin glaciers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1958 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Lieutenant Commander Walter H. Barton, executive officer for the so-called Beardmore South Camp between In 1985 and 1986 the VXE-6 squadron stationed for 78 days on the Beardmore Glacier with a total of over 800 missions.
Web links
- Barton Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barton Mountains on geographic.org (English)