COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to 1800m between Maitland Glacier and Apollo Glacier, S of Mobiloil Inlet, Bowman Coast, were photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928; by Ellsworth, 21 November 1935; and by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1947. The highest part of the feature was named Mount Hitchcock after Dr Charles Baker Hitchcock (b.1906), Director of the AGS from 1953, who using the 1928 and 1935 photographs assisted in constructing the first reconnaissance map of the area (Joerg, 1937, map facing p.444) (USHO chart 6639, 1955). Following further survey by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1958, the feature was renamed Hitchcock Heights (APC, 1962, p.16; DOS 610 sheet W 68 64, 1963). Gora Khitchkok (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

A mostly ice-covered mountain mass, 1,800 m, between Maitland and Apollo Glaciers at the S side of Mobiloil Inlet, on the E coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered and photographed by Sir Hubert Wilkins on his flight of Dec. 20, 1928, and rephotographed by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935. Named by the US-ACAN in 1952 for Charles B. Hitchcock of the American Geographical Society, who by utilizing these photographs assisted in constructing the first reconnaissance map of this area.