Relay Hills
| Relay Hills | ||
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| Highest peak | Helm Peak ( 930 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 29 ′ S , 67 ° 58 ′ W | |
The Relay Hills (English for relay hills ) are a group of low, icy and mainly conical hills in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise up on the Fallières coast between Mount Edgell and the Kinnear Mountains .
A first rough survey was carried out between 1936 and 1937 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Aerial photographs were taken in November 1947 during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey re-surveyed the hills in November 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on August 31, 1962. It was named after rolling stages that had to be covered on the British Graham Land Expedition and also by the FIDS to get to the head of the Prospect glacier from here : Nach Transporting part of the equipment over a certain distance, the participants turned back to fetch the other part.
Web links
- Relay Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Relay Hills on geographic.org (English)