Onley Hill
Onley Hill | ||
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height | 840 m | |
location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
Coordinates | 67 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Onley Hill is a 840 m high and rocky hills in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the northeastern part of the Framnes Mountains, it rises 1.5 km south of Mount Henderson .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it Sørkollen (Norwegian for south hill ), mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) changed its name on October 11, 1960. The new namesake is Leslie W. Onley, weather observer at Mawson Station in 1959.
Web links
- Onley Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Onley Hill on geographic.org (English)