Friis Hills
| Friis Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 45 ′ S , 161 ° 25 ′ E | |
The Friis Hills are a group of up to 1,750 m high hills in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They extend for 10 km on the north side of the bend of Taylor Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named her in 1975 after the geographer and archivist Herman Ralph Friis (1905-1989), head of the Center for Polar Archives of the National Archives , who worked as an exchange scientist on the Japanese station on East Ongul Island between 1969 and served in 1970 and was a member of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names from 1957 to 1973.
Web links
- Friis Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Friis Hills on geographic.org (English)