Kavrayskiy Hills

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Kavrayskiy Hills
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
part of Transantarctic Mountains
Kavrayskiy Hills (Antarctica)
Kavrayskiy Hills
Coordinates 70 ° 27 ′  S , 161 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 70 ° 27 ′  S , 161 ° 5 ′  E
Pomerantz Tableland topographic map from 1968; Kavrayskiy Hills east of the center of the map on the western edge of the Rennick Glacier

Pomerantz Tableland topographic map from 1968; Kavrayskiy Hills east of the center of the map on the western edge of the Rennick Glacier

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The Kavrayskiy Hills ( Russian Горы Каврайского Gory Kawraiskowo ) are a series of hills on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They tower south of Rennick Bay on the western flank of the lower section of the Rennick Glacier . Blohmhügel belongs to them .

Scientists on a Soviet Antarctic expedition mapped and named it in 1958. It was named after the Soviet astronomer and cartographer Vladimir Vladimirovich Kawraiski (1884–1954). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1965.

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