Snow Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Snow 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:
twin hills rising to 240 and 265m W of Cemetery Bay, Signy Island. Following survey by DI in 1933, the lower hill was named descriptively Snow Hill (Nelson and others, chart, 1933; France. SHM, 1937, p.389; BA, 1942, p.37; APC, 1955, p.19; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963; [referring to the higher hill] Matthews and Maling, 1967, end map). Colina Nevada [translation of English name] (Moreno, 1948, p.10). Following resurvey by FIDS, 1947-50 and 1957-58, the name Snow Hills was applied to the two hills (APC, 1975, p.5; DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 2-DOS 1975).
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