Post Office Hill
| Post Office Hill | ||
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 Map of Ross Island with Post Office Hill (right) |
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| height | 430 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Post Office Hill ( English for post office hill ) is a striking, 430 m high hill , which towers 6.5 km northwest of the Knoll the place of the colony of Adelie penguins on Cape Crozier at the eastern end of the Antarctic Ross Island .
Participants in a 1958-1959 campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition mapped and named him. It was named after the incident during the British Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) in January 1902 on a stake in the middle of a pile of stones in the penguin colony messages for the rescue ship Morning were left. The place is listed in the list of historical sites and monuments in Antarctica under the number HSM 69 .
Web links
- Post Office Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Post Office Hill on geographic.org