Allan Hills

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

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

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Place ID: 229
Name ID: 655

Feature type: Hill

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A group of hills, mostly ice-free, 'Y' shaped in plan, about 15 km NNW of Mount Brooke. The hills lie in the most south-westerly sources of the Mawson Glacier (Ross Dependency). Discovered by the New Zealand party of the TAE (1957-58).

Named For

Named after Prof. R.S. Allan of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Location

Latitude:
76° 43' 09.9" S
-76.71942°
Accurate to 1000m
Longitude:
159° 39' 00.7" E
159.65019°
Accurate to 1000m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Map The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 13395 - Convoy Range in the SCAR Map Catalogue.
Source Name:
Convoy Range
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
1:250000
Source Institution:
AAD
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
10-Aug-1966

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