Bieber Bench
| Bieber Bench | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 57 ′ S , 160 ° 23 ′ E | |
| surface | 50 km² | |
The Bieber Bench is a relatively flat high plateau of about 50 km² in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is on the south side of the Surveyors Range in the Churchill Mountains . The icy plateau between the Mansergh snow field and the head end of the Algie glacier reaches a height of 1800 m .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the formation in 2003 after John W. Bieber of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware , chief scientist of the United States Antarctic Program for the study of the sun and the heliosphere in connection with cosmic rays at McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station between 1988 and 2002.
Web links
- Bieber Bench in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bieber Bench on geographic.org (English)