Campbell Hills
| Campbell Hills | ||
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 Topographic map (1: 250,000) with the Campbell Hills (center right) |
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| Highest peak | Seelig Peak ( 1346 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 26 ′ S , 163 ° 47 ′ E | |
The Campbell Hills are a group of hills in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . They rise up on the Shackleton Coast 8 km west-southwest of Cape Lyttelton on the southern flank of the Nimrod Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after the American glaciologist William Joseph Campbell (1926-2015), who carried out investigations of the Ross Ice Shelf from 1962 to 1963 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Campbell Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Campbell Hills on geographic.org (English).