Hurricane Heights
| Hurricane Heights | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Convoy Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 44 ′ S , 160 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Hurricane Heights (English for hurricane heights ) are an irregular, mainly ice-free mountain range of about up to 2000 m high mountain peaks in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Convoy Range they rise up on the south side of the Towle Valley .
Scientists in a campaign carried out from 1989 to 1990 as part of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program named it so because of the strong winds that frequently occur here.
Web links
- Hurricane Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hurricane Heights on geographic.org (English)