Hillier Moss

Hillier Moss
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Geographical location	Signy Island , South Orkney Islands
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Coordinates	60 ° 43 ′ 37 ″ S , 45 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 60 ° 43 ′ 37 ″ S , 45 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W

The Hillier Moss is a wetland on Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . The area, interspersed with a few small ponds and extensive moss carpets , is 300 m north of Lenton Point in the southeast of the island.

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after Edward Richard Hillier (* 1940), a doctor at the British Antarctic Survey station set up on Signy Island in 1967.

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