Porter Hills
| Porter Hills | ||
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| Highest peak | Wilson Hill ( 931 m ) | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Denton Hills | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 10 ′ S , 163 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Porter Hills are a series of hills in East Antarctic Victoria Land . They rise in an east-west orientation between the Hidden Valley and the Ward Valley in the Denton Hills .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the electrical engineer Raymond C. Porter of the United States Coast Guard , who died on February 8, 1979 during an unloading maneuver of the icebreaker USS Glacier at McMurdo Station .
Web links
- Porter Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Porter Hills on geographic.org (English)