Stewart Hills
| Stewart Hills | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 84 ° 12 ′ S , 86 ° 0 ′ W | |
The Stewart Hills encompass several nunatakkers and snowy hills in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . They rise 80 km northeast of the Ford massif from the otherwise structureless plain of the Antarctic Ice Sheet .
Edward C. Thiel and John Campbell Craddock discovered them on December 13, 1959 during a flight to air-assisted geomagnetic measurements. Around the same time they were also used by a team that was traveling overland to the Horlick Mountains as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program between 1958 and 1959 . Thiel and Craddock named the group after the American geologist Duncan Stewart (1905-1969) from Carleton College , who had dealt extensively with rocks in Antarctica and thus contributed to the understanding of the geological development of this continent.
Web links
- Stewart Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stewart Hills on geographic.org (English)