McKaskle Hills
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 1 ′ S , 73 ° 0 ′ E | |
The McKaskle Hills are a group of relatively low and rocky hills on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . On the eastern edge of the Amery Ice Shelf, they loom between the Rogers Glacier and the Mistichelli Hills .
The American geographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it in 1952 using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). He named it after Harvey Alonzo McKaskle (1921-1998), who was involved in the reconnaissance flights to create aerial photographs between 14 ° and 164 ° east longitude during Operation Highjump.
Web links
- McKaskle Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKaskle Hills on geographic.org (English)