Anderson Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Anderson Hills (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to 1210m at O'Connell Nunatak, N Patuxent Range (q.v.), Pensacola Mountains. Following air reconnaissance by USN from Ellsworth Station , 1957-58, the name Anderson Mountains was applied to a feature shown between 83° and 84°S, and 56° and 64°W, after Robert Bernard Anderson (b.1910), US Deputy Secretary of Defence, 1954-55 (later Secretary of the Treasury), who was directly responsible for US operations in Antarctica in the IGY (Ronne, 1961, map frontispiece). Following survey by USGS, 1961-62, and air photography by USN in 1864, the feature was repositioned and named Anderson Hills (USGS sheet SV 11-20/4, 1969; AGS, 1974, p.3). Anders [sic] Hills (Schmidt and Ford in AGS, 1969, Pl. V).
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