Wilson Hills
| Wilson Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 40 ′ S , 158 ° 30 ′ E | |
 Map of part of the Oates Coast from 1968 with the Wilson Hills |
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The Wilson Hills are a group of scattered hills , nunatakkers and ridges on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . They are distributed in a north-west-south-east extent over a distance of around 112 km between the Matusevich Glacier and the Pryor Glacier .
They were discovered by Lieutenant Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882-1916), a crew member of the Terra Nova during the Antarctic expedition of the same name (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . They are named after the doctor and zoologist Edward Wilson (1872-1912), who died on this research trip together with Scott and three other expedition members while marching back from the geographic South Pole.
Web links
- Wilson Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilson Hills on geographic.org (English)