Mattox Bastion
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.Places of Interest
Highlights include Inland Forts and Freya, Mount.
Inland Forts
Peak
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.
Freya, Mount
Peak
The Inland Forts are a line of peaks extending between Northwest Mountain and Saint Pauls Mountain, in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peaks were discovered by Ervon r. Koenig and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04. Freya, Mount is situated 3 km northwest of Mattox Bastion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Linnaeus Terrace and Labyrinth.
Linnaeus Terrace
Locality
Linnaeus Terrace is a rock terrace on the north side of Oliver Peak in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is protected under the Antarctic Treaty System as Antarctic Specially Protected Area No.138 because it is one of the richest known sites for the cryptoendolithic communities that colonise the Beacon Sandstone. Linnaeus Terrace is situated 5 km northeast of Mattox Bastion.
Labyrinth
Locality
Photo: Dturme, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Labyrinth is an extensive flat upland area which has been deeply eroded, at the west end of Wright Valley, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was so named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition because the eroded dolerite of which it is formed gives an appearance of a labyrinth. Labyrinth is situated 10 km north of Mattox Bastion.
Mattox Bastion
- Type: Slope
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Mattox Bastion” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Mattox Bastion”
- German: “Mattox Bastion”
- Ladin: “Mattox Bastion”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mattox Bastion”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mattox Bastion”
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