Gneiss Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Gneiss 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:
two hills rising to 255 and 240m on N-S line in SW Signy Island, were surveyed by FIDS, 1947-49, and so named because a band of pink gneiss outcrops near the summits (APC, 1955, p.10; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963; [incorrectly referring to hills to W] DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973: [correctly indicated] DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 2-DOS 1975).
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