Darley Hills
| Darley Hills | ||
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 Map sheet with the Darley Hills on the northern edge of the map |
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| Highest peak | Constellation Dome ( 1330 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 6 ′ S , 160 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Darley Hills are a mountain range on the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it towers north-south between Cape Douglas and Cape Parr over the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf . The highest peak is the Constellation Dome at 1330 m .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after James Morrison Darley, a cartographer with the National Geographic Society between 1940 and 1963, under whose direction important maps of Antarctica were created.
Web links
- Darley Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Darley Hills on geographic.org (English).
Individual evidence
- ^ Constellation Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (accessed January 12, 2017).