Coombs Hills
| Coombs Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 47 ′ S , 160 ° 0 ′ E | |
 Map from 1962, Coombs and Allan Hills in the southern half of the map west of the Convoy Range |
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The Coombs Hills are an area of rugged and largely snow-free hills and valleys in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They are located between the Odell Glacier and the Cambridge Glacier .
The New Zealand northern group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) discovered them in 1957 and named them after the New Zealand mineralogist and petrologist Douglas Saxon Coombs (* 1924) from the University of Otago , who helped the expedition to provide petrological equipment.
Web links
- Coombs Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Coombs Hills on geographic.org (English)