Reinbolt Hills
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 29 ′ S , 72 ° 30 ′ E | |
The Reinbolt Hills are a group of rocky hills of low to negligible elevation on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land, East Antarctica . They extend 15 km east of Gillock Island on the eastern edge of the Amery Ice Shelf over a length of 8 km.
The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped the foothills in 1952 using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Roscoe named it after Lieutenant Fred L. Reinbolt (1921-2003), co-pilot on Operation Highjump flights for aerial photography in the area of this group of hills.
Web links
- Reinbolt Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Reinbolt Hills on geographic.org (English)