MacAlpine Hills
| MacAlpine Hills | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 13 ′ S , 160 ° 30 ′ E | |
 1967 map of the MacAlpine Hills to the north, south of Law Glacier |
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The MacAlpine Hills are a mountain range of mainly ice-free, cliff-like hills in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Transantarctic Mountains they extend from Mount Achernar to the southwest along the southern flank of the Law Glacier to the Sylwester Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Kenneth D. MacAlpine, a member of the United States Navy Squadron VX-6, who was injured in a plane crash on McMurdo Sound in October 1956.
Web links
- MacAlpine Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- MacAlpine Hills on geographic.org (English).