Hanson Hill
| Hanson Hill | ||
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| height | 900 m | |
| location | Trinity Peninsula , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 35 '16 " S , 58 ° 49' 35" W | |
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The Hanson Hill is a 900 m high and snowy hill on Trinity Peninsula in the north of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . With one peak to the north and one to the south, it rises 6 km southeast of Cape Roquemaurel .
Participants of the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of Jules Dumont d'Urville roughly mapped it in March 1838, but did not name it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it Thanaron Hill in 1948 . The panel followed measurements made in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), in which Cape Thanaron, named by d'Urville, could not be identified; The aim was to preserve the designation made by d'Urville. After the object known today as Thanaron Point was identified in 1963 , the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee renamed the hill described here after the British geodesist Thomas Anthony Hanson (* 1936), who worked for the FIDS in the 1957-1959 Hope Bay was active.
Web links
- Hanson Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hanson Hill on geographic.org (English)