Hill-Nunatak (Queen Elizabeth Land)
| Hill Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1450 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 54 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Hill-Nunatak is a prominent and 1450 m high nunatak in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It rises 13 km east-northeast of Gambacorta Peak from the ice masses at the southeast end of the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains .
It was discovered on January 13, 1956 during the transcontinental flight carried out by the United States Navy during the first Operation Deep Freeze from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1957 after Jack O. Hill, aerial photographer on the flight.
Web links
- Hill Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hill Nunatak on geographic.org (English)