Schroeder Hill

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Schroeder Hill
height 2680  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  S , 175 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 85 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  S , 175 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W
Schroeder Hill (Antarctica)
Schroeder Hill

The Schroeder Hill is a 2,680  m high and rocky hill in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cumulus Hills of the Queen Maud Mountains , the hill rises 5.5 km southeast of Ellis Bluff .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Henry B. Schroeder, meteorologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1964, who also worked as a field research assistant at Byrd Station from 1964 to 1965 .

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