McLeod Hill

McLeod Hill
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height	1790 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Hemimont plateau
Coordinates	68 ° 4 ′ 15 ″ S , 66 ° 27 ′ 42 ″ W Coordinates: 68 ° 4 ′ 15 ″ S , 66 ° 27 ′ 42 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The McLeod Hill is a 1,790 m high, rounded and ice-covered hill in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms a prominent landmark about 1.5 km east of the area where the Northeast Glacier was formed on the Hemimont Plateau .

Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill made a first, rough mapping . A first survey was carried out by the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), which was followed by another by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1946. The hill is named after Kenneth A. McLeod (1926–1962), FIDS meteorologist who, together with a participant in the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948), occupied a meteorological station east of the hill between July and December 1947 .

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