Mars Hills
| Mars Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Convoy Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 40 ′ S , 162 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Mars Hills are a small group of rounded hills made of striking red rock in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They rise 4 km north of Mount Davidson in the Convoy Range .
The mountains were mapped and geologically investigated by participants in a campaign that ran from 1976 to 1977 as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions . The naming was based on that of the Viking Hills and the similarity of the hills with the reddish rock formations that can be seen on images of the Viking probes from the planet Mars between July and September 1976.
Web links
- Mars Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mars Hills on geographic.org (English)