Wiggans Hills
| Wiggans Hills | ||
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| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Shackleton Range | |
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| Coordinates | 80 ° 10 ′ S , 27 ° 2 ′ W | |
The Wiggans Hills are up to 700 m high and striking hills in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range they rise over a length of 3 km along the western flank of the mouth of the Gordon Glacier in the Slessor Glacier and represent the northernmost group in the La Grange Nunatak core.
Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey conducted surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the British geodesist Thomas Henry Wiggans (* 1941), who worked from 1968 to 1970 at Halley Station and in the meantime in the Shackleton Range.
Web links
- Wiggans Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wiggans Hills on geographic.org (English)