Bonney Bowl

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Bonney Bowl
location Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains Herbert Mountains , Shackleton Range
Geographical location 80 ° 21 ′ 40 ″  S , 25 ° 35 ′ 17 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 21 ′ 40 ″  S , 25 ° 35 ′ 17 ″  W
Bonney Bowl (Antarctica)
Bonney Bowl
Type Bergkessel

The Bonney Bowl is a mountain basin southeast of the Sumgin Buttress in the western center of the Herbert Mountains of the Shackleton Range in the East Antarctic Coatsland .

The Bowl was photographed from the air in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey conducted the geodetic survey between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1971 after the British geologist Thomas George Bonney (1833–1923), whose field of work had included the formation of mountain basins.

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