Denton Hills

Denton Hills
Highest peak	Mount Kowalczyk ( 1690 m )
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 5 ′ S , 163 ° 55 ′ E Coordinates: 78 ° 5 ′ S , 163 ° 55 ′ E
	The northern part of the Denton Hills (not labeled as such) can be seen at the bottom of the map.
	The southern part of the Denton Hills (not labeled as such) can be seen at the top of the map.

The Denton Hills are a group of rugged foothills stretching 38.5 km in length and 14.5 km in width east of the Royal Society Range on the Scott Coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land. The lineup includes a range eastward oriented ridges and valleys of Howchin Glacier , the Armitage-saddle , the Blue Glacier of Walcott Bay and the coast are limited. The highest peaks, the 1690 m high Mount Kowalczyk and the 1634 m high Goat Mountain , rise from the Hobbs Ridge in the northern part of the Hills. To the south they gradually drop over the centrally located mountain ridge Kahiwi Maihao Ridge ( 1075 m ) and the Xanadu Hills ( 820 m ) at the southern end. The glacier system of the Hills, consisting of Hobbs Glacier , Blackwelder Glacier , Salmon Glacier , Garwood Glacier , Joyce Glacier , Rivard Glacier , Miers Glacier , Adams Glacier, and Ward Glacier , is on the decline and leaves numerous Arid valleys .

The hills were discovered and roughly mapped by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The United States Antarctic Program and the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program provided detailed mapping in the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the Hills in 1999 after the US geologist George Henry Denton (* 1941) from the University of Maine , who conducted field research in the Transantarctic Mountains and in the Antarctic between 1958 and 1999 as part of more than 25 trips to the Antarctic Viktorialand performed.

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