SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Obruchev Hills

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

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

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Place ID: 10519
Name ID: 705

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:

Obruchev Hills (United States of America)
Obrucheva, holmy (Russia)

Narrative

A group of hills between Cape Jones and Cape Hoadley in Queen Mary Land. These hills were plotted by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14) as a great rock face. The hills were plotted more accurately by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956), who named them after V.A. Obruchev, a distinguished Soviet geologist.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

66° 35' 00.0" S

-66.58333°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

99° 46' 00.0" E

99.76667°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E164_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

USGS - United States Geological Survey

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

11-Oct-1960

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