Dillon Hill
| Dillon Hill | ||
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| height | 125 m | |
| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 10 '43 " S , 73 ° 29' 24" E | |
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The Dillon Hill is a 125 m high, with tussock overgrown hill on the island Heard in the archipelago of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean . It rises about 2 km northwest of Cape Labuan .
Australian scientists set up a station here in March 1980 for satellite-based position determination using the Doppler effect . The namesake of the hill is not known.
Web links
- Dillon Hill in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)