Worswick Hill

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Worswick Hill
Map of Coronation Island (center) with Brisbane Heights, at the western end of which rises Worswick Hill

Map of Coronation Island (center) with Brisbane Heights, at the western end of which rises Worswick Hill

height 575  m
location Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands )
Mountains Brisbane Heights
Coordinates 60 ° 33 '58 "  S , 45 ° 43' 59"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 33 '58 "  S , 45 ° 43' 59"  W.
Worswick Hill (Antarctica)
Worswick Hill

The Worswick Hill is a rounded and 575  m high hill on Coronation Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It towers over the western end of Brisbane Heights .

The hill was already shown on early maps of the South Orkney Islands, but not in the correct geographical position. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations carried out a survey in 1933 , the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) repeated this between 1948 and 1949. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the hill in 1955 after Ronald Francis Worswick (1928-1993), meteorologist of the FIDS on Signy Island in 1950 and 1951, who reached the hill on a sled excursion in 1950.

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