Stokes Hill
| Stokes Hill | ||
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| height | 270 m | |
| location | Doumer Island , Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 51 '50 " S , 63 ° 32' 19" W | |
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| First ascent | 1956/57 by O. Lynch | |
The Stokes Hill is a distinctive, rocky and 270 m high hill on Doumer Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 1.5 km southeast of Doumer Hill .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition , led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, mapped it. A Royal Navy hydrographic unit carried out surveys between 1956 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the hill in 1958 in memory of the first ascent of the hill by O. Lynch, machinist ( Stokes in English sailor jargon ) of the survey boat used by this unit.
Web links
- Stokes Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stokes Hill on geographic.org (English)