Gleaner Heights

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Gleaner Heights
View from Miziya Peak to Gleaner Heights

View from Miziya Peak to Gleaner Heights

location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Gleaner Heights (South Shetland Islands)
Gleaner Heights
Coordinates 62 ° 34 ′  S , 60 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 34 ′  S , 60 ° 14 ′  W
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The Gleaner Heights are a number of hills in the eastern part of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They extend southwest from Leslie Hill .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the US brig Gleaner , which operated seal hunting in the waters around the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821.

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