Saddle Hill (Viktorialand)
| Saddle Hill | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Saddle Hill (English for saddle hill ) is a mountain saddle- shaped, table mountain - like hill in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Freyberg Mountains it rises at the eastern end of the northern ridge of the Gallipoli Heights .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the hill at the suggestion of P. J. Oliver, geologist with the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program , who studied it between 1981 and 1982.
Web links
- Saddle Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Saddle Hill on geographic.org (English)