Robinson Heights
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Admiralty Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 22 ′ S , 166 ° 40 ′ E | |
 Topographic map with Robinson Heights (top center) |
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The Robinson Heights are a mainly icy and up to 2170 m high mountain range in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . With a length of 15 miles, it has an elliptical shape when viewed from above. The mountains rise south of the Anare Pass and form the northwestern end of the Admiralty Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names made the designation in 1964. It is named after the American geophysicist Edwin S. Robinson (* 1935), who worked at McMurdo Station in 1960 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program and took part in an exploratory march to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1962 to 1963 .
Web links
- Robinson Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Robinson Heights on geographic.org (English)