Mathys Bank
| Mathys Bank | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Shackleton Range | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 18 ′ S , 28 ° 32 ′ W | |
The Mathys Bank is a rocky mountain ridge around 750 m high in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range it rises 4 km southwest of Mount Etchells in the La Grange Nunatakkern .
The United States Navy took aerial photographs of this ridge in 1967. The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after Nicholas Mathys (* 1942), who worked for the survey from 1967 to 1969 at Halley Station and from 1968 to 1969 in the Shackleton Range.
Web links
- Mathys Bank in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mathys Bank on geographic.org (English)