Wisdom Hills
| Wisdom Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 33 ' S , 163 ° 33' E | |
The Wisdom Hills are a group of up to 2000 m high hills in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Bowers Mountains they rise from the northwestern part of the Molar massif .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1983 at the suggestion of the New Zealand geologist Malcolm Gordon Laird (1935-2015) based on the name of the massif. Because of that after the molar ( English molar is named) the designation is patently the wisdom tooth ( English wisdom tooth ) from.
Web links
- Wisdom Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wisdom Hills on geographic.org (English)