Onley Hill

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Onley Hill
height 840  m
location Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Framnes Mountains
Coordinates 67 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 63 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 67 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  S , 63 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  E
Onley Hill (Antarctica)
Onley Hill

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.

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