Scallop Hill
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 Map of Black Island (above, right half of the picture) with Scallop Hill |
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| height | 225 m | |
| location | Black Island , Ross Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Scallop Hill is a 225 m high hill of volcanic origin in the shape of a dome. It rises just beyond Cape Spirit on the east side of Black Island in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago off the Scottish coast of Victoria Land .
Scientists of a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition made the name. Eponymous are fossilized conglomerates of scallops ( English scallop ) the genus Chlamys at the top of the hill.
Web links
- Scallop Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scallop Hill on geographic.org (English)