Ellipsoid Hill
| Ellipsoid Hill | ||
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| height | 1130 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Ellipsoid Hill is a 1130 m high, rounded and partly icy mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises north of Blue Glacier between Geoid Glacier and Spheroid Hill .
The mound is one of a series of geographic features named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1993 using terms from geodesy and mathematics . It is named after the shape of the ellipsoid .
Web links
- Ellipsoid Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ellipsoid Hill on geographic.org (English)