Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Post Office Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Post Office Hill (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:
A prominent hill, 400m high, overlooking the Adelie Penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, Ross Island, and approximately four miles north-east of The Knoll, and half a mile inland from the coast. A survey station was established in the 1958-59 season by the NZGSAE. Named because the "Discovery" left messages attached to a pole in a cairn of rocks in the rookery, for the relief ship "Morning". The hill is dome-shaped and resembles the old type of post office box. Name suggested by Mr E B Fitzgerald of the NZGASE, 1958-59.
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