Lully Foothills
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 47 ′ S , 69 ° 37 ′ W | |
The Lully Foothills are a large group of up to 900 m high mountain peaks and nunataks in the western center of Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They extend between the Vivaldi Glacier and the LeMay Range in a northeast-southwest direction over a length of 24 km.
The first aerial photographs were taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687).
Web links
- Lully Foothills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lully Foothills on geographic.org (English)