Gamma Hill
| Gamma Hill | ||
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| height | 300 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 34 '7 " S , 56 ° 47' 44" W | |
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The Gamma Hill is about 300 m high hill on the Tabarin Peninsula in the north of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the banks of the Fridtjof Sound .
The name of the hill followed extensive geophysical investigations of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1959 and 1960. It is named after the gamma , a unit for the magnetic flux density that has been replaced by the Tesla since 1970 .
Web links
- Gamma Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gamma Hill on geographic.org (English)