Armadillo Hill
| Armadillo Hill | ||
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| height | 1760 m | |
| location | Graham land | |
| Mountains | Hemimont plateau | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 6 '59 " S , 66 ° 22' 46" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Armadillo Hill (English for Armadillo Hills ) is an ice-covered and 1760 m high hill in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It protrudes 120 m above the ice plateau and is 6.5 km east-southeast of the Northeast Glacier and 13 km northeast of the Neny Fjord .
A first rough survey of the hill was made by participants of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Sled teams of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) made a new survey and named the hill as Sawtooth (translated: saw tooth ). The name that is valid today goes back to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey after measurements between 1946 and 1947. It is named after the discarded ice blocks at the summit and the general shape of the hill, which when viewed from the northeast gives it the profile of an armadillo .
Web links
- Armadillo Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Armadillo Hill on geographic.org (English)