Mount Bastion

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Mount Bastion
height 2530  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Willett Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Bastion (Antarctica)
Mount Bastion

Mount Bastion is a 2530  m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Willett Range, it looms west of the Webb Glacier and the Gibson Trail .

Participants in a 1959 to 1960 campaign of the New Zealand Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions named it after its appearance, which is reminiscent of a supporting pillar of a bulwark ( English bastion ).

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