Bastion Hill
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 Topographic map sheet with Bastion Hill (bottom center) |
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| height | 1490 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Bastion Hill (English for stronghold hill ) is a 1490 m high mountain near the Hillary Coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Brown Hills of the Cook Mountains, it protrudes south into the Darwin Glacier immediately east of Touchdown Glacier .
The team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) gave it its descriptive name.
Web links
- Bastion Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bastion Hill on geographic.org (English)