Wright Hill
Wright Hill is a large flat-topped hill at the east side of Bowling Green Plateau in the Cook Mountains. Mapped by the Darwin Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowling Green Plateau and Pleasant Plateau.
Bowling Green Plateau
Locality
Bowling Green Plateau is a small but prominent ice-covered plateau at the north side of the Brown Hills in the Cook Mountains in Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition; Professor Charles C.
Pleasant Plateau
Locality
Pleasant Plateau is a small, somewhat isolated ice-free plateau located close west of Blank Peaks and Foggydog Glacier in the Brown Hills. Explored by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, who so named it because of the agreeable weather encountered there on each occasion the area was visited. Pleasant Plateau is situated 9 km southwest of Wright Hill.
Wright Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,657 metres
- Description: hill in Antarctica
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-79.70154° or 79° 42′ 6″ southLongitude
158.76077° or 158° 45′ 39″ eastElevation
1,657 metres (5,436 feet)Named after
Derek WrightOpen location code
2RGW7QX6+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 11109015816OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6628286Wikidata ID
Q8038218
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wright Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wright Hill”
- Chinese: “賴特山”
- Dutch: “Wright Hill”
- German: “Wright Hill”
- Hebrew: “גבעת רייט”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wright Hill”
- Swedish: “Wright Hill”
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