Eblen Hills
| Eblen Hills | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 51 ′ S , 133 ° 28 ′ W | |
The Eblen Hills are a group of distinctive, rocky and up to 1640 m high hills in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . They rise immediately north of the mouth of the Colorado Glacier in the Reedy Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them on the basis of their own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1967 after James Carl Eblen (1931-2016), aircraft machinist of the winter team on the McMurdo station in 1959 and participant in several campaigns as part of Operation Deep Freeze .
Web links
- Eblen Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Eblen Hills on geographic.org (English)