Crater Hill (Antarctica)
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 Topographic map of the Hut Point Peninsula with Crater Hill (bottom center) |
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Crater Hill (English for crater hill ) is a 300 m high volcanic crater on the Hut Point Peninsula in the southwest of the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 1.5 km north of Observation Hill .
It was discovered and named descriptively by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Crater Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crater Hill on geographic.org (English)