Rathbone Hills
| Rathbone Hills | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Gutenko Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 39 ′ S , 64 ° 56 ′ W | |
The Rathbone Hills are a range of low hills and nunatakkers in the middle of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . They extend about 6.5 km north of the Guthridge-Nunatakker in the Gutenko Mountains over a length of about 22.5 km in an east-west orientation.
The United States Geological Survey mapped the area in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain range in 1976 after Major David L. Rathbone (* 1934) of the United States Navy , commander of a Lockheed C-130 of the VXE-6 squadron Operation Deep Freeze in 1970 and 1971.
Web links
- Rathbone Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rathbone Hills on geographic.org (English)