Robbins Hill
| Robbins Hill | ||
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| height | 1140 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Robbins Hill is a 5 km long and up to the western part 1140 m high hill in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the Scott coast , it is the easternmost rock formation on the northern flank of the confluence of the Blue Glacier and the Bowers-Piedmont Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Rob Robbins, who until 1999 held various positions on the McMurdo and Palmer stations in twenty consecutive research campaigns of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Robbins Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robbins Hill on geographic.org (English)