Tombstone Hill (Palmer Archipelago)
| Tombstone Hill | ||
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| height | 50 m | |
| location | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 49 ′ 6 ″ S , 63 ° 30 ′ 41 ″ W | |
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The Tombstone Hill (English for grave cairn is) a 50 m high hill on the Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises immediately east-northeast of Damoy Point .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and mapped it. The descriptive naming was made by scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1944. It is named after some rocks at the top of the hill, which look like gravestones .
Web links
- Tombstone Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tombstone Hill on geographic.org (English)