Xanadu Hills
| Xanadu Hills | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Denton Hills in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 11 ′ S , 163 ° 32 ′ E | |
The Xanadu Hills are a mountain range consisting of hills in the Denton Hills in East Antarctica Victoria Land . They rise up to 820 m high between the Ward Valley and the Alph River .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1994 after the fictional place Xanadu from the poem Kubla Khan by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).
Web links
- Xanadu Hills in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Xanadu Hills on geographic.org (English)