SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Hill Island

Hill Island (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Hill Island (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 6384
Name ID: 988

Feature type: Island

Origin

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

Narrative

The easternmost of a pair of islands lying about 0.6 km west of the north-west tip of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. The centre of this island lies about 0.4 km to the north-east of the centre of Richardson Island.

Named For

Named after Richard Hill, Senior Electrical Fitter (Mechanic), at Davis in 1986, who greatly assisted with the establishment of Law Base.

Location

Latitude:

69° 23' 42.1" S

-69.39503°

Accurate to 25m

Longitude:

76° 04' 15.5" E

76.07099°

Accurate to 25m

Altitude:

35 m

Accurate to 10m

Images

©Adam Christensen 2009

Catalogue id: IA21781
Caption: Hill Island, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1500 feet. Looking Southwest.
Photographer: Christensen, Adam

Map

Source

Location Method:

Unknown

Source Name:

Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

Lars25K

Source Scale:

1:25000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

29-Sep-1988

Related information

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