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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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:
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).
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