Hesperides Hill
| Hesperides Hill | ||
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 Hespérides Hill with Sea Lion Glacier in the foreground |
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| height | 94 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ 42 ″ S , 60 ° 22 ′ 13 ″ W | |
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The Hespérides Hill ( Bulgarian Хълм Хесперидес Chalm Chesperides ) is a 94 m high, mountain ridge-like and in the Antarctic summer months un-iced hill on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It towers 665 m southwest of Sinemorets Hill over the shore of South Bay with Johnsons Dock in the southwest and Bulgarian Beach in the northeast. It extends over a length of 420 m with a south-south-east-north-north-west orientation. Starting at a width of 250 m, it tapers in a north-northwest direction.
Bulgarian scientists named it in 1996 based on the name of Cape Hesperides , which is named after the Spanish polar research ship Hesperides . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred in 1997 the Bulgarian designation into English.
Web links
- Hespérides Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hespérides Hill on geographic.org (English)