Stair Hill

Stair Hill
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height	1500 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	66 ° 9 ′ 50 ″ S , 65 ° 16 ′ 13 ″ W Coordinates: 66 ° 9 ′ 50 ″ S , 65 ° 16 ′ 13 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Stair Hill is a 1500 m high hill on the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises at the head of Holtedahl Bay .

Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 and 1957 were used by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey to map the mountain. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the US physicist Ralph Stair (1900–1980) from the National Bureau of Standards , a pioneer in the development of protective goggles against snow blindness .

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