Keble Hills
| Keble Hills | ||
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| Highest peak | Murphy Peak ( 1280 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 0 ′ S , 164 ° 10 ′ E | |
The Keble Hills are a striking mountain range of granitic hills of up to around 1300 m height on the Scott Coast in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the Denton Hills , they separate the Salmon Glacier from the Garwood Valley . They include Murphy Peak , Handley Hill , Auger Hill, and Coral Hill in order from west to east .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1994 after the British botanist William Keble Martin (1877–1969), who researched the flora of New Zealand and the Subantarctic .
Web links
- Keble Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Keble Hills on geographic.org (English).