Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Hill Nunatak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hill Nunatak (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 c. 1450m on S side of Iroquois Plateau, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN, 13 January 1956, on a non-stop flight from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to the Weddell Sea and back; in association with the names of other crew members grouped in the area, named after CPO Jack O. Hill, USN, aerial photographer on the flight ([shown in c. 84°35'S 52°00'W] NGS map, 1957b; USBGN, 1960, p,4; [correctly shown] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.4). Nunatak Khill (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The nunatak was surveyed from the ground by USGS and rephotographed from the air by USN, 1963-64.
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