Morris Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Morris 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.
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rising to 1050m as part of La Grange Nunataks, Shackleton Range, were surveyed by TAE in October 1957 and named Morris Nunataks after Leslie Frederick Morris (b.1925), RSIGYE carpenter, Halley, 1957-59, who spent several weeks with TAE at "Shackleton" and "South Ice" helping with final preparations for the trans-polar journey (APC, 1962, p.22; DOS 610 sheet W 80 24/26, 1963); following further survey by BAS from Halley, 1968-71, renamed Morris Hills (APC, 1974, p.5; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978).
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