Bonney bars
| Bonney bars | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 43 ′ S , 162 ° 22 ′ E | |
The Bonney Bar is a mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It extends in a northerly direction from the Kukri Hills across the Taylor Valley to Lake Bonney .
The western group, led by the British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), named it during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) based on the name of the lake of the same name, which was named after the British geologist Thomas George Bonney (1833– 1923) is.
Web links
- Bonney Riegel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bonney Riegel on geographic.org (English).