Worswick Hill
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Map of Coronation Island (center) with Brisbane Heights, at the western end of which rises Worswick Hill |
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height | 575 m | |
location | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
Mountains | Brisbane Heights | |
Coordinates | 60 ° 33 '58 " S , 45 ° 43' 59" W | |
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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.
Web links
- Worswick Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Worswick Hill on geographic.org (English)