Visser Hill
| Visser Hill | ||
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| height | 160 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island ( Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 45 ′ 3 ″ S , 67 ° 45 ′ 24 ″ W | |
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The Visser Hill is a turn 160 m high hill on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . It rises 3.5 km south of Mount Vélain in the north of the island.
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition from 1956 to 1957 were used to map it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Dutch diplomat and mountaineer Philipp C. Visser (1882–1955), who had carried out classic glacier research in the Karakoram between 1921 and 1935 .
Web links
- Visser Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Visser Hill on geographic.org (English)