Gallipoli Heights
| Gallipoli Heights | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 26 ′ S , 163 ° 48 ′ E | |
The Gallipoli Heights are a group of mountains and ridges in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Freyberg Mountains , its center rises 12 km south-southeast of Monte Cassino .
The northern group of the 1963-1964 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him (1963-1964) named them in connection with the naming of the Freyberg Mountains after the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War , in which the British general Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg (1889–1963) had attended.
Web links
- Gallipoli Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gallipoli Heights on geographic.org (English)