Independence Hills
| Independence Hills | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Simmons ( 1590 m ) | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 25 ′ S , 81 ° 33 ′ W | |
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The Independence Hills ( German : Independence Mountains) are a 16-kilometer mountain range that belongs to the Heritage Range mountain range in the southern foothills of the West Antarctic Ellsworth Mountains . They are about three miles southeast of the Marble Hills and form the southernmost part of the western wall of the Horseshoe Valley .
geography
The Independence Hills run from the northwest to the southeast. In the north they are connected to the Marble Hills by the Morris Cliff . About 3 miles northeast of the range of hills are the Patriot Hills , in the slipstream of which the Patriot Hills Base Camp and a blue ice runway are operated. In the south of the chain is the 1,430 meter high Mount Shattuck , to which the Redpath Peaks connect further south .
The mountain peaks of the chain are Mount Simmons in the north, Mount Geissel and Mount Shattuck in the south.
history
The Independence Hills were mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1961-66 through site surveys and aerial photographs by the US Navy . The chain was named in 1964 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names , which as with all surveys of the Heritage Range has a reference to the cultural heritage of the United States .
In the winter of 1997-98 a common research expedition of Carnegie Mellon University , NASA Ames Research Center and the University of Pittsburgh carried out experiments in the area between the Independence Hills and the Patriot Hills with the robot Nomad , which was built around stones and autonomously To study and identify meteorites in polar regions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Independence Hills ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.
- ↑ Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search - Expedition 1998 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
