Bastien Range
The Bastien Range (78°50′S 086°00′W) is an Antarctic mountain range of moderate height which extends in a NW-SE direction for about 64 kilometres (40 mi), flanking the SW side of Nimitz Glacier and the Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains.
Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.
Sentinel Range and Bastien Range, a USGS map
Named by US-ACAN for Thomas W. Bastien, geologist, leader of the helicopter supported University of Minnesota Geological Party to these mountains, 1963–64. Bastien was also a member of a party to the Ellsworth Mountains in 1961–62.
Features
Geographical features include:
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