Flint Hill (Antarctica)
| Flint Hill | ||
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| height | 995 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Flint Hill is a 995 m high hill in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range , it is the central elevation of Flint Ridge and looms east of Sagittate Hill .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 based on the name of the mountain ridge of the same name. Its namesake is Lawrence A. Flint, in 1972 manager of the Berg Field Center for geological research at McMurdo Station as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Flint Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flint Hill on geographic.org (English)