Aureole Hills

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

The Aureole Hills (63°46′S 58°54′W / 63.767°S 58.900°W / -63.767; -58.900Coordinates: 63°46′S 58°54′W / 63.767°S 58.900°W / -63.767; -58.900) are a pair of smooth, conical, ice-covered hills, the higher reaching to 1,080 metres (3,540 ft), standing close west of the north end of Detroit Plateau, Trinity Peninsula on Antarctica. The descriptive name was given by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following its survey of 1948.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Aureole Hills" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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