Rice bastion
| Rice bastion | ||
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| height | 1700 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 27 '10 " S , 60 ° 20' 7" W | |
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Rice Bastion is a 1700 m high and massive mountain with a small summit crown in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises eight miles southwest of Mount Elliott on the edge of the Detroit Plateau .
Measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) between 1960 and 1961 were used to chart it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Lee Rice (1927-2010), who worked from 1957 to 1958 for the FIDS on the Hope Bay station and in this area.
Web links
- Rice Bastion in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rice Bastion on geographic.org (English)