Osmic Hill
| Osmic Hill | ||
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| height | 305 m | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 19 '27 " S , 36 ° 30' 7" W | |
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The Osmic Hill is a distinctive, rounded and 305 m high hill on South Georgia . It rises abruptly from the surrounding plain and marks the northern end of a winding mountain range of hills on the west bank of the Moraine Fjord .
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld made the first rough measurements of the hill. Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) named it following surveys carried out in 1951. It is named the osmic acid ( English osmic acid ), which was used by the FIDS as fixing agents for biological samples.
Web links
- Osmic Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Osmic Hill on geographic.org (English)