Name details

Touchdown Hills

Touchdown Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Touchdown Hills  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 111626

Feature type: Hill

Origin

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:

Narrative

E of Filchner Ice Shelf running N-S from c. 78°00'S to 78°40'S and rising to c. 500 m, were discovered by TAE, 6 February 1956, and so named because the pilot of the expedition's ski-equipped Otter aircraft, mistaking the snow-covered hills for clouds, struck the snow but bounded upwards undamaged (Fuchs and Hillary, 1958e, p.44, 58 and map p.100; APC, 1959a, p.12; DOS 610 sheet 78 32/34, 1963); roughly mapped by TAE in December 1956. The following are renderings of the English name. Mellem-landings-Bakkerne, Snertbortiheiene, Hara'ee Techdoun, Techdoun Hara'ee (Fuchs and Hillary, 1958c, p.187; 1958b, p.112; 1958a, map p.94). Snuddkullarna, Tatchi Daun Hiru, Tatchidaun Hiruzu, Colinas Touchdown, Collines Touchdown, Touchdown Heuvels, Montes de Touchdown, Wzgórza Touchdown (Fuchs and Hillary, 1959a, p.113; 1959c, p.98, 156; 1959e, map p.116; 1959g, p.69; 1959d, p.121; 1959b, p.66; 1959f, map p.57). GricÄevje Dotika, Nárazové Vrchy (Fuchs and Hillary, 1960a, p.52; 1960b, map p.105). Tachdaun-Khils (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Touch-down Domsbág (Fuchs and Hillary, 1962, map p.173). Kholmy Tachdaun (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). Colina Touch-down (Argentina. IGM map, 1966).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
78° 20' 00.0" S
-78.33333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
35° 00' 00.0" W
-35.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Jul-1959

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