Sphinx Hill
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| height | 145 m | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 '18 " S , 58 ° 26' 41" W | |
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The Sphinx Hill is a 145 m high, distinctive and black hill on King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises about 2.5 km north-northwest of Demay Point on the west bank of Admiralty Bay .
It was first mapped during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . The hill was given the descriptive name based on the Egyptian Sphinx in 1954 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after a survey carried out by Commander Frank William Hunt (* 1922) of the Royal Navy between 1951 and 1952.
Web links
- Sphinx Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sphinx Hill on geographic.org (English)