Mattox bastion
| Mattox bastion | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mattox Bastion is a mountain in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It is one of the peaks of the Inland forts in the Asgard Range and towers over the northeastern part of Flory Cirque .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after Commander Benjamin G. Mattox, head of a delegation of the United States Navy support units at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1971.
Web links
- Mattox Bastion in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mattox Bastion on geographic.org (English)