Wright Hill

Wright Hill
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height	1850 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 79 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E

The Wright Hill is a 1,850 m high hill with a flattened peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Cook Mountains, it rises on the east side of the Bowling Green Plateau .

The team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) gave him his name. It is named after the New Zealand photographer Robertson Derek Wright († 1994), who was part of Edmund Hillary's team on this research trip on the way to the geographic South Pole .

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