Hofman Hill

Hofman Hill
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height	1065 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E

The Hofman Hill is a 1,065 m high and ice-free mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the Scott Coast just north of the mouth of the Blackwelder Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the American biologist Robert J. Hofman, from 1975 a member of the Commission for the Protection of Marine Mammals in the United States Congress , who also carried out twelve campaign studies on the seal population in the 1960s and 1970s in Antarctica and was a member of the Antarctic Marine Living Resource Commission from 1983 to 1986 .

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