Magnet Hill
| Magnet Hill | ||
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| height | 570 m | |
| location | Trinity Peninsula , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 21 '33 " S , 57 ° 23' 42" W | |
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The magnetic Hill (English for magnetic hill ) is a small, distinctive and 570 m high hill on the Trinity Peninsula in the north of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 6 km northeast of the Camel Nunataks from the Mott snow field .
The hill was the location for magnetometric and topographical surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959, which is reflected in its naming.
Web links
- Magnetic Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Magnet Hill on geographic.org (English)