Barry Hill (Antarctica)
| Barry Hill | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Barry Hill is an ice-free hill in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cumulus Hills of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises immediately west of the entrance to the LaPrade Valley and 1.5 km north-northeast of Mount Kenyon .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Lieutenant Richard P. Barry of the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy , communications officer at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1957 and participant in the first three Operations Deep Freeze between 1955 and 1958.
Web links
- Barry Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Barry Hill on geographic.org (English)