Poisson Hill
| Poisson Hill | ||
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| height | 80 m | |
| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 28 '24 " S , 59 ° 38' 48" W | |
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The Poisson Hill (in Chile Cerro Poisson ) is a 80 m high and rounded hills on Greenwich Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 500 m northeast of Iquique Cove .
His name, which was translated into English by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971, appears for the first time on a Chilean map from the 1950s. It is named after Maurice Raoul Poisson Eastman (1926-2006), who made the official opening of the nearby Arturo Prat station in 1947 .
Web links
- Poisson Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Poisson Hill on geographic.org (English)