Thyasira Hill

Thyasira Hill
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height	60 m
location	Snow Hill Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica )
Coordinates	64 ° 22 ′ 29 ″ S , 56 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ W Coordinates: 64 ° 22 ′ 29 ″ S , 56 ° 58 ′ 51 ″ W

The Thyasira Hill is a turn 60 m high and prominent hill on Snow Hill Iceland south of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Spath Peninsula, it rises from a group of small hills 250 to 300 m south of the refuge that participants of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) had built under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1995 after the shell species Thyasira townsendi , first described in 1890 , the fossils of which were found here in large numbers.

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