Catacomb Hill
| Catacomb Hill | ||
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| height | 1430 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Catacomb Hill is a distinctive, 1,430 m high rocky peaks, which consists of a ridge east of the head end of the Blue Glacier in Denton Hills of the East Antarctic Victoria Land rises.
The New Zealand team that explored the Blue Glacier on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) set up a land survey station on this summit in December 1957. Participants of that team named it descriptively based on the impressive, in catacombs reminiscent weathering cavities in the granite of the summit.
Web links
- Catacomb Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Catacomb Hill on geographic.org (English)