Windvane Hill
| Windvane Hill | ||
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| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Windvane Hill (of English wind vane , wind vane ' ) is a small hill on the west side of the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises immediately northeast of the foothills of Cape Evans .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named it after the anemometer station they built here .
Web links
- Windvane Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Windvane Hill on geographic.org (English)