Blanchard Hill

Blanchard Hill
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height	1360 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 26 ′ 7 ″ S , 21 ° 55 ′ 24 ″ W Coordinates: 80 ° 26 ′ 7 ″ S , 21 ° 55 ′ 24 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Blanchard Hill is a 1,360 m high hill in the East Antarctic Coats Land . It looms between Mount Kelsey and the Whymper Spur in the Pioneers Escarpment of the Shackleton Range .

The first aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the hill in 1972 after the American inventor Robert L. Blanchard , who developed the first lightweight expedition tent with external poles in the late 1940s.

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