Fossil Hill

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Fossil Hill
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height 107  m
location Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains South mountains
Coordinates 62 ° 12 ′ 21 ″  S , 58 ° 58 ′ 38 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 12 ′ 21 ″  S , 58 ° 58 ′ 38 ″  W
Fossil Hill (South Shetland Islands)
Fossil Hill

The Fossil Hill is a low hill on the Fildes Peninsula of King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . The 107 meter high hill extends about one and a half kilometers west of the isthmus of Ardley Island in an east-west direction.

After the hill under this name since the 1980s regularly in Brazilian, Chilean and Chinese geological mentioned literature, the British announced Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) the name in 2001 to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Byers Peninsula indicated in the British description at SCAR belongs to Livingston Island .
  2. ↑ a b as 化石 山 , Huàshí Shān , see 化石 山 - 中国 极地 考察 知识库 at polar.org.cn, accessed on January 26, 2019
  3. ↑ Fossil Hill in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed January 26, 2019