The Bastien Range () is a mountain range of moderate height which extends in a northwest–southeast direction for about , flanking the southwest side of the

Nimitz Glacier The Nimitz Glacier is an Antarctic glacier, long and wide, draining the area about west of the Vinson Massif and flowing southeast between the Sentinel Range and Bastien Range to enter Minnesota Glacier, in the central Ellsworth Mountains ...

and the

Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is wide. Many peaks rise over and Vinson Mass ...

, in the

Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minneso ...

, Antarctica.

Name

The Bastien Range was named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) for Thomas W. Bastien, geologist, leader of the helicopter-supported

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Geological Party to these mountains in 1963–64. Bastien was also a member of a party to the

in 1961–62.

Features

United States mapping of the Bastien Range was undertaken in 1961 and 1988. Geographical features include, from north to south:

Ereta Peak

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A peak rising to high at the north extremity of Bastien Range. It is situated 12.88 km northwest of Ichev Nunatak, 19.63 km southwest of Mount Gardner and 22.5 km west of

Mount Vinson Vinson Massif () is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. It overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located a ...

. It has steep and partly ice-free north and southwest slopes. Erata Peak surmounts upper Nimitz Glacier to the southeast. It is named after the Thracian town of Ereta in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Mount Klayn

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A peak rising to high in the northern portion of Bastien Range. The feature extends 2.8 km in south-southwest – north-northeast direction and is wide. It is situated 10.84 km northwest of Mount Fisek, 12.76 km northeast of Wild Knoll, 17.43 km southeast of Ereta Peak, 4.83 km south of Ichev Nunatak, and 17.6 km west of Mount Atkinson in Sentinel Range. It has steep and partly ice-free southeast slopes. Mount Klayn surmounts upper Nimitz Glacier to the northeast. It is named after Laslo Klayn, geologist at

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in 1999/2000 and subsequent seasons.

Mount Fisek

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A peak rising to high in the central portion of Bastien Range. It is situated 9.6 km north of Patmos Peak, 12 km east-northeast of Wild Knoll, 10.84 km southeast of Mount Klayn, and 22 km west of Mount Liptak in Sentinel Range. It has steep and partly ice-free north, east and southwest slopes. Mount Fisek surmounts Nimitz Glacier to the northeast. It is named after Fisek Hill in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Wild Knoll

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A peak rising to high in the central portion of Bastien Range in Ellsworth Mountains. It is situated 12.76 km southwest of Mount Klayn, 12 km west-southwest of Mount Fisek and 13.65 km northwest of Patmos Peak. Steep and partly ice-free west slopes. Wild Knoll surmounts upper Minnesota Glacier to the south-southwest. It is named after the Swiss natural history illustrator

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(1824-1900), a member of the British 1872–76

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who took the first photographs in the Antarctic region in 1874.

Patmos Peak

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A peak rising to high in the southern portion of Bastien Range. It is situated 4.66 km northwest of Bergison Peak, 13.65 km southeast of Wild Knoll, 9.6 km south of Mount Fisek, and 22.54 km west of Mount Inderbitzen in Sentinel Range. It has steep and partly ice-free east and south slopes. Patmos Peak surmounts Nimitz Glacier and its tributary Karasura Glacier to the northeast, and upper Minnesota Glacier to the southwest. It is named after the medieval fortress of Patmos in Southern Bulgaria.

Bergison Peak

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A peak rising to in the southern portion of Bastien Range. It is situated 25 km northwest of O’Neal Nunataks, 4.66 km southeast of Patmos Peak. It has steep and partly ice-free W slopes. Bergison Peak surmounts Karasura Glacier to the north, Nimitz Glacier to the northeast, and upper Minnesota Glacier to the southwest. It is named after the Thracian fortress of Bergison in Southern Bulgaria.

O'Neal Nunataks

A small, linear group of nunataks that mark the south end of Bastien Range. They were named by the

geological parties to the Ellsworth Mountains for Jerry O'Neill, aerographer with these parties in 1963-64 and 1964-65.

Camp Hills

A small group of hills which lie between the south portion of the Bastien Range and the Minnesota Glacier. So named by the University of Minnesota Geological Party, 1963-64, because they established their base camp (Camp Gould) near these hills.

References

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