Canine Hills
| Canine Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 37 ′ S , 163 ° 50 ′ E | |
The Canine Hills (English for canine hills ) are a group of snow-covered hills in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They extend with northwest-southeast orientation over a length of 18 km and form the eastern half of the Molar massif in the Bowers Mountains .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1983 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geologist Malcolm Gordon Laird (1935-2015) in the context of naming the Molar massif and the Incisor Ridge .
Web links
- Canine Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Canine Hills on geographic.org (English)