Bieber Bench () is a relatively horizontal upland area of at the south side of the

Surveyors Range Surveyors Range () is a long mountain range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. Location Surveyors Range is long, extending north along the east side of Starshot Glacier from the Thompson Mountain area to the glacier's terminus at the Ro ...

Churchill Mountains The Churchill Mountains are a mountain range group of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in the Ross Dependency region of Antarctica. They border on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. Seve ...

. The ice-covered feature rises to between

Mansergh Snowfield Starshot Glacier () is a glacier 50 nautical miles (90 km) long, flowing from the polar plateau eastward through the Churchill Mountains, then north along the west side of Surveyors Range, entering the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Parr. So n ...

and the head of Algie Glacier. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

after John W. Bieber of the Bartol Research Institute,

University of Delaware The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 mas ...

: he was

United States Antarctic Program The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

principal investigator for solar and heliospheric studies with Antarctic cosmic ray observations at

McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...

and South Pole Station, 1988–2002.

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* Plateaus of Antarctica Landforms of the Ross Dependency Shackleton Coast {{ShackletonCoast-geo-stub