Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Cross Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Cross Hill (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:
rising to 160m SW of Telefon Bay, Deception Island, was called Monte de la Laguna [=mountain of the lake] in association with Crater Lake nearby (Olsacher and others, 1956, map facing p.56); following survey by FIDS in January 1954, named Cross Hill from the large wooden cross, probably erected by whalers, near the summit (APC, 1958, p.4; DOS 310 Deception Island sheet, 1960). Laguna Hill (USBGN, 1965, p.100).
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