Barker Range
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Barker Range is a mountain range
trending northwest–southeast and including Jato Nunatak
, Mount Watt
, Mount McCarthy
, and Mount Burton
, located at the southwest side of Millen Range
in the Victory Mountains
, Victoria Land
. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
for James Barker, leader at Scott Base
, 1972.
Mountain range
A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...
trending northwest–southeast and including Jato Nunatak
Jato Nunatak
Jato Nunatak is a small but distinctive nunatak at the north end of Barker Range, in Victoria Land. Named by the Southern Party of NZFMCAE, 1962–63, after the JATO bottles used by American aircraft to assist in taking off with heavy loads at high elevations. The aircraft landing point was nearby....
, Mount Watt
Mount Watt
Mount Watt is a peak, 2,715 m, located 3 nautical miles northwest of Mount Roy in the Barker Range, Victoria Land. Named by the Southern Party of NZFMCAE, 1962–63, after B.H. Watt, expedition secretary....
, Mount McCarthy
Mount McCarthy (Victoria Land)
Mount McCarthy is a peak, 2,865 m, standing 1 nautical mile northwest of Schofield Peak, in the Barker Range, Victoria Land. Named by the NZFMCAE, 1962–63, after Mortimer McCarthy, a member of the crew of the Terra Nova of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13. McCarthy, was a guest of the U.S...
, and Mount Burton
Mount Burton
Mount Burton is a graywacke peak, high, standing at the west side of the mouth of Osuga Glacier in the Barker Range, Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. It was named by the New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition , 1962–63, after William Burton, crew member on the Terra Nova during...
, located at the southwest side of Millen Range
Millen Range
The Millen Range is a prominent Northwest-Southeast trending range in Antarctica, located west of Cartographers Range in the Victory Mountains. Peaks in the range include Inferno, Omega, Le Couteur, Head, Cirque, Gless, Turret, Crosscut and Mount Aorangi. It was Named by the NZFMCAE, 1962–63, for...
in the Victory Mountains
Victory Mountains
The Victory Mountains is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea...
, Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica...
for James Barker, leader at Scott Base
Scott Base
Scott Base is a research facility located in Antarctica and is operated by New Zealand. It was named after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica...
, 1972.