Red Hill (South Shetland Islands)

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Red Hill
height 100  m
location King George Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates 62 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  S , 58 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  S , 58 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  W
Red Hill (South Shetland Islands) (South Shetland Islands)
Red Hill (South Shetland Islands)

The Red Hill (English; Polish Czerwone Wzgórze , Red Hill ' ) is a 100  m high hill on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises between the Polar Club Glacier and the Windy Glacier .

Polish scientists named it in 1980 after the reddish intercalations of sandstone between the basalt layers of the hill.

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