Clark Hills
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 42 ′ S , 63 ° 23 ′ W | |
The Clark Hills are a group of low and mostly snowy hills in the West Antarctic Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula . They extend 8 km southwest of the Eland Mountains over a length of 6 km.
The United States Geological Survey mapped the area in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the formation in 1976 after Kerry Bruce Clark (* 1945), biologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program on the International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions in 1968 and 1969.
Web links
- Clark Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clark Hills on geographic.org (English)