Davis Hills
| Davis Hills | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 52 ′ S , 150 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Davis Hills are a small group of hills in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains they rise up on the southern flank of the Klein Glacier , where it joins the Scott Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them based on their own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1967 after Parker Davis, photographer of the VX-6 flight squadron in Operation Deep Freeze of the Years 1966 and 1967.
Web links
- Davis Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davis Hills on geographic.org (English)