Gateway Hills
| Gateway Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 40 ′ S , 163 ° 28 ′ E | |
The Gateway Hills (English for through hills ) are two distinctive and 2000 m high hills in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Bowers Mountains, they tower west of Husky Pass at the head of Sledgers Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geologist Malcolm Gordon Laird (1935-2015) because the hills mark the southern entrance to the Sledgers Glacier.
Web links
- Gateway Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gateway Hills on geographic.org (English)