Whiteside Hill
| Whiteside Hill | ||
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| height | 330 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 8 ′ 27 ″ S , 61 ° 37 ′ 27 ″ W | |
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The Whiteside Hill is a 330 m (according to British specifications 345 m ) high and icy hill at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It previously loomed on the southern flank of the mouth of the Evans Glacier into the Hektoria Glacier . Due to the retreat of the glaciers, it is now on the Blagoevgrad Peninsula south of Vaughan Inlet .
The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins explored this area on his Antarctic flight on December 20, 1928. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the hill in 1947 as a cape . In 1955, the survey corrected itself to describe the object as a hill that gradually merges into the ice masses of the Evans Glacier. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave it its descriptive name in 1959.
Web links
- Whiteside Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whiteside Hill on geographic.org (English)