Turner Hills
| Turner Hills | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Miller Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 58 ′ S , 156 ° 18 ′ E | |
The Turner Hills are a group of hills in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . They rise between the Astro and Nimrod glaciers in the northwestern part of the Miller Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them using tellurometer measurements and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Mortimer D. Turner (1920-2004) of the National Science Foundation , who has since 1959 was manager of the polar program of the foundation, in the course of which between 1959 and 1960 operated geological studies in the Antarctic dry valleys and then acted as representative of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Turner Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turner Hills on geographic.org (English).