Meteorite Hills
| Meteorite Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Darwin Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 40 ′ S , 155 ° 36 ′ E | |
The Meteorite Hills are a group of hills that form the western part of the Darwin Mountains with a length of 13 miles . They tower between the upper sections of the Darwin Glacier and the Hatherton Glacier .
The name was suggested by the American seismologist John Owen Annexstad (* 1932) from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center , in memory of the work of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program under the direction of the geologist William A. Cassidy from the University of Pittsburgh in from 1978 to 1979.
Web links
- Meteorite Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Meteorite Hills on geographic.org (English)