Vantage Hill
Mount McClintock | ||
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height | 2000 m | |
location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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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.
Web links
- Vantage Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Vantage Hill on geographic.org (English)