Rice Bastion
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Rice Bastion is a substantial mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 mass surmounted by a small crown of exposed rock which appears slightly higher than the plateau behind it, projecting from the edge of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

, Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjold Coast
Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Mount Elliott
Mount Elliot (Antarctica)
Mount Elliott is a conspicuous mountain, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing 18 miles northwest of Cape Sobral and 8 miles northeast of Rice Bastion, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands...

 and 8.8 miles (14 km) north-northwest of Fothergill Point
Fothergill Point
Fothergill Point is a low rocky coastal point 6.6 miles northeast of Cape Worsley, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ian L. Fothergill, leader and meteorological assistant at the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ...

. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Lee Rice, FIDS surveyor at Hope Bay
Hope Bay
Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....

(1957–58), who worked in this area.
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