Hades Terrace
| Hades Terrace | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Southern Cross Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 41 ′ S , 163 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Hades Terrace is a steep-walled and largely icy step in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Southern Cross Mountains , it lies immediately west of the Vulcan Hills on the eastern flank of the Campbell Glacier .
The northern group of a campaign carried out from 1965 to 1966 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named them after Hades , the god of the dead from Greek mythology.
Web links
- Hades Terrace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hades Terrace on geographic.org (English)