Cockscomb Hill
| Cockscomb Hill | ||
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| height | 140 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 4 '26 " S , 58 ° 28' 25" W | |
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The Cockscomb Hill (English for Hahnenkammhügel ) is a 140 m high and distinctive hill on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises from the glacier at the head of Mackellar Inlet in Admiralty Bay .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot made an initial survey of the hill. Lieutenant Commander Frank William Hunt (* 1922) of the Royal Navy carried out the descriptive naming in the course of his measurements from 1951 to 1952.
Web links
- Cockscomb Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cockscomb Hill on geographic.org (English)