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 (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Group of snow-covered hills extending S from Vahsel Bay on the E side of the Filchner Ice Shelf. So named by the CTAE in 1957 because one of the expedition members, while piloting a plane fitted with skis, mistook these hills for clouds and hit them, bounding upwards undamaged.
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