Monteath Hills
| Monteath Hills | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Tararua ( 2550 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Victory Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 6 ′ S , 166 ° 30 ′ E | |
 Map of the Freyberg Mountains and Evans Firnfield from 1967, with the Monteath Hills in the northeast corner |
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The Monteath Hills are a group of mountains in the Victory Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They are bounded by the Jutland , Midway , Pearl Harbor and Plata Glaciers . These include Mount Crowder , Mount Tararua, and Mount Holdsworth .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 after Colin Monteath, who is responsible for field research activities in Antarctica in the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
Web links
- Monteath Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Monteath Hills on geographic.org (English).