Kyle Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Kyle Hills (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill (2b)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Feature n.64 in ACAN minutes of 19/06/2000. A prominent group of volcanic cones, hills, ridges, and peaks that occupy the E part of Ross Island between Mount Terror and Cape Crozier. The hills extend E-W for 8 mi, rising from sea level at Cape Crozier to c.2600 m in Mount McIntosh at the W end of the group. Local relief of features is on the order of 200 m. Named by US-ACAN (2000) after Philip R Kyle, Professor of Geochemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, who worked extensively in Antarctica over 28 field seasons, 1969-2000; completed six seasons under NZARP auspices, 1969-76; principal investigator on numerous NSF research projects in 23 seasons of field work under USAP auspices, 1977-2000, with focus on long-term research of the volcano Mount Erebus; in charge of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory, 2000.
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