Sapper Hill
| Sapper Hill | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Sapper Hill is an ice-covered hill in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the northern part of the Surveyors Range, it rises 3 km northeast of Hermitage Peak .
Participants of the campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-1961) named him after the name of the neighboring Mount Ubique after the nickname The Sappers (English for The Pioneers ) for the Royal Engineers .
Web links
- Sapper Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sapper Hill on geographic.org (English)