Sealer Hill

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Sealer Hill
Map of the Byers Peninsula with Sealer Hill (with an elevation of 91 m)

Map of the Byers Peninsula with Sealer Hill (with an elevation of 91  m )

height 70  m
location Livingston Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Coordinates 62 ° 40 ′ 10 ″  S , 61 ° 6 ′ 52 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 40 ′ 10 ″  S , 61 ° 6 ′ 52 ″  W
Sealer Hill (South Shetland Islands)
Sealer Hill

The Sealer Hill ( English for seal hunter hill ) a about 70  m (according to Bulgarian information 91  m ) high hill on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the Byers Peninsula , it looms near the western end of the South Beaches .

The British Antarctic Survey carried out geological work here between 1975 and 1976. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1978 after the at least three simple stone huts at the foot of the hill that seal hunters are believed to have built.

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