Ant Hill
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 Worcester Range topographic map (bottom right) with Ant Hill |
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| height | 1310 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Worcester Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Ant Hill is a 1310 m high hill in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises steeply in the Worcester Range on the western flank of the Skelton Glacier between the Ant Hill Glacier and the Dilemma Glacier .
The New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) explored it in 1957. It is named after the anticline she discovered in a ledge below the hill.
Web links
- Ant Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ant Hill on geographic.org (English)