Hart Hills
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 43 ′ S , 89 ° 5 ′ W | |
The Hart Hills are a 6 km long, east-west facing series of isolated, low, and mostly snowy hills in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . They rise 13 km west of the Pagano Nunatak and 123 km north of the Ford massif .
The American geologists Edward C. Thiel and John Campbell Craddock discovered them during a reconnaissance flight on December 13, 1959 along the 88th degree of western longitude. They named the mountain range after the US geophysicist Pembroke J. Hart (1929-2008), who was a member of the technical committee of the National Academy of Sciences for seismological and gravimetric investigations as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958).
Web links
- Hart Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hart Hills on geographic.org (English)