Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Holmes Hills (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Holmes Hills (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill (2b)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A group of ridges and nunataks rising to c. 1,700 m between Runcorn Glacier and Beaumont Glacier, bounded to SW by Brennecke Nunataks in south-central Palmer Land. Mapped by the USGS from aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Navy, 1966-69. Surveyed by BAS, 1972-73. In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, named by the US-ACAN in 1978 after Arthur Holmes (1890-1965), Scottish geologist, Professor of Geology, Edinburgh University, 1943-56.
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