Karo Hills
| Karo Hills | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 34 ′ S , 154 ° 10 ′ W | |
 1966 map of the Karo Hills west of the Scott Glacier mouth |
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The Karo Hills are a promontory of rounded and ice-free hills of the Queen Maud Mountains in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . On the Amundsen coast they extend over a length of 19 km along the western flank of the mouth of the Scott Glacier from Mount Salisbury in a north-northwest direction to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .
They were first sighted and roughly mapped during the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Admiral Henry Arnold Karo (1903–1986), head of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1955 to 1965.
Web links
- Karo Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Karo Hills on geographic.org (English)