Hill Peaks
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| location | Radford Island , Marshall Archipelago | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 54 ′ S , 146 ° 42 ′ W | |
The Hill Peaks are a small group of mountain peaks on Radford Island in the West Antarctic Marshall Archipelago . They rise 3 km southwest of Mount Dane in the western part of the island lying in the Sulzberger Ice Shelf .
The first sighting probably goes back to participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) during an overflight on December 5, 1929. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Joseph Francis Hill (1913-1999), mechanic and driver on Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935).
Web links
- Hill peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hill Peaks on geographic.org (English)