Gabbro Hills
| Gabbro Hills | ||
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| Highest peak | Amphibole Peak ( 1660 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 42 ′ S , 173 ° 0 ′ W | |
| rock | Gabbro (dominant) | |
 1965 Dufek Coast map , Gabbro Hills in the middle of the southern half of the map |
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The Gabbro Hills are a series of rugged mountain ridges on the Dufek Coast in Antarctica's Ross Dependency . They extend in the Queen Maud Mountains along the Ross Ice Shelf between the confluences of the Barrett and Gough glaciers . To the south they extend to the Ropebrake Pass .
The southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-1964) named them after the Plutonic magma rock gabbro , which is predominant here.
Web links
- Gabbro Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gabbro Hills on geographic.org (English)