Vantage Hill

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Mount McClintock
height 2000  m
location Australian Antarctic Territory
Mountains Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 80 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Vantage Hill (Antarctica)
Vantage Hill

The Vantage Hill (English for lookout hill ) is a 2000  m high hill with a flattened peak in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the western Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 300 m above the level of the polar plateau 16 km southwest of Mount Henderson .

The hill is the southernmost of the geographic objects reached by the team to explore the Darwin Glacier on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958). She named the hill after the view from its top.

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