Crilly Hill
| Crilly Hill | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Crilly Hill is the middle of three ice-free hill (the others are the Keel Hill and Simplicity Hill ) in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises on the north flank of the McGregor Glacier at a distance of 10 km south-southwest of Mount Finley .
Participants in the Texas Tech University expedition to the Shackleton Glacier (1964-1965) named him after Clifford Lewis Crilly (1938-1993), a medical member of the United States Army flight unit that had logistically supported the research trip.
Web links
- Crilly Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crilly Hill on geographic.org (English)