Gamble Cone
| Gamble Cone | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Kyle Hills | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Gamble Cone is a 400 m high hill in the east of the Antarctic Ross Island . In the Kyle Hills, it rises 1 km south-southeast of Post Office Hill .
At the suggestion of the New Zealand geochemist Philip Raymond Kyle, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him on June 19, 2000 after the Irish geologist John Alan Gamble of the Victoria University of Wellington , who carried out extensive studies on the occurrence of xenolites at Cape Crozier and in the 1980s performed at Cape Bird .
Web links
- Gamble Cone in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gamble Cone on geographic.org (English)