Williams Hills
| Williams Hills | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Hobbs ( 1135 m ) | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 42 ′ S , 58 ° 55 ′ W | |
The Williams Hills are a compact group of hills in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . They extend in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains for a length of 16 km south of Childs Glacier and west of Roderick Valley .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the hills based on their own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1965 after the American geologist Paul Lincoln Williams (* 1932), who for worked in the United States Geological Survey between 1963 and 1964 in the Neptune Range.
Web links
- Williams Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Williams Hills on geographic.org (English)
