Buchanan Hills (Antarctica)

Buchanan Hills
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
part of	Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 39 ′ S , 82 ° 55 ′ W Coordinates: 79 ° 39 ′ S , 82 ° 55 ′ W

The Buchanan Hills are a group of rugged peaks in West Antarctica's Ellsworthland . They rise north of the Union Glacier in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains . The Driscoll Glacier flows to the west, the Nimbus Hills and the Samuel Nunatakker to the east .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Roger Buchanan, a biologist from the United States Antarctic Research Program , who worked in Antarctica in the Antarctic summer of 1964/65.

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