Atwater Hill
| Atwater Hill | ||
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| height | 125 m | |
| location | Lavoisier Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 11 '49 " S , 66 ° 36' 36" W | |
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The Atwater Hill is a 125 m high hill on the east side of Lavoisier Island off the west coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 4 km south of Benedict Point .
It was mapped during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–1957). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the American chemist and physiologist Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907), who, together with Francis Gano Benedict (1870-1957) , had optimized the method of calorimetry to elucidate metabolic processes.
Web links
- Atwater Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Atwater Hill on geographic.org (English)