Misplaced Pages

Visser Hill

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

Visser Hill (66°45′S 67°44′W / 66.750°S 67.733°W / -66.750; -67.733) is a hill 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) south of Mount Velain in northern Adelaide Island. Mapped from air photos taken by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) (1947–48) and Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1956–57). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Philipp C. Visser (1882–1955), Dutch diplomat and mountaineer who made classic investigations of glaciers in the Karakoram (1921–35).

Adelaide Island
Stations and bases
Hills, peaks,
and nunatuks
Glaciers
Other inland
features
Coastal features
Off-shore
Islands
Reefs and banks
Rocks
Straits

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Visser Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.  Edit this at Wikidata


Stub icon

This Adelaide Island location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: