Saunders Hill
| Saunders Hill | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Saunders Hill is a rounded and rocky hills on the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It protrudes immediately east of the Windmill Islands into the southeastern part of O'Brien Bay .
Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used to map it . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1963 after William Y. Saunders, a biologist on Wilkes Station in 1961.
Web links
- Saunders Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Saunders Hill on geographic.org (English)