Budnick Hill
| Budnick Hill | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Budnick Hill is a small and rounded hills on the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It rises between Crane Cove and Geoffrey Bay on the south side of Newcomb Bay and is connected to the northern section of the Bailey Peninsula by a narrow headland .
The hill was mapped using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Keith Budnick, geodesist on Wilkes Station as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1964, who set up a trigonometric observation station on the top of the hill .
Web links
- Budnick Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Budnick Hill on geographic.org (English)