Name details

Darley Hills

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140346

Feature type: Heights

Origin

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:

Narrative

A range of high, ice-covered coastal hills overlooking Ross Ice Shelf, trending north-south for about 32km between Capes Douglas and Parr, and contained by Nursery Glacier to the west.

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for James M Darley, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society, 1940-63, under whose direction many important maps of Antarctica were published.

Location

Latitude:
81° 06' 00.0" S
-81.10000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 10' 00.0" E
160.16667°
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Altitude:
1155 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 21_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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