Stillwell Hills
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 26 ′ S , 59 ° 28 ′ E | |
The Stillwell Hills are a group of rocky hills made of banded gneiss in Kempland, East Antarctica . They loom on the southwestern shore of William Scoresby Bay . They include Kemp Peak and Lealand Bluff .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations explored them in February 1936. Aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 were used to map them. Geologists of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions examined them in 1961. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named them after the Australian geologist Frank Leslie Stillwell (1888-1963), participant in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Stillwell had developed a theory of the metamorphic differentiation of banded gneisses based on corresponding finds on the Georg V coast .
Web links
- Stillwell Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stillwell Hills on geographic.org (English).