Long Hills
| Long Hills | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 85 ° 18 ′ S , 118 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Long Hills are a group of hills and rocky tongues around 10 km in length in Marie-Byrd Land in western Antarctica . They rise halfway between the Wisconsin Range and the Ohio Range in the Horlick Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The area was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and using United States Navy aerial photographs from 1958 to 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the group in 1962 after the geologist William Ellis Long (* 1930), who had participated in several research trips to the Horlick Mountains between 1958 and 1962.
Web links
- Long Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Long Hills on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 948 (English).