Allan Hills
The Allan Hills are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about 12 nautical miles long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,895 metres
- Description: part of the Transantarctic Mountains
- Also known as: “Allan Nunatak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Watters and Windwhistle Peak.
Mount Watters
Peak
The Allan Hills are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about 12 nautical miles long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
Windwhistle Peak
Peak
The Allan Hills are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about 12 nautical miles long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
Punchbowl Cirque
Valley
The Allan Hills are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about 12 nautical miles long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shimmering Icefield and Halle Flat.
Shimmering Icefield
Locality
The Allan Hills are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about 12 nautical miles long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
Halle Flat
Locality
The Allan Hills are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about 12 nautical miles long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
Allan Hills
- Categories: landform and geographic location
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-76.71667° or 76° 43′ south
Longitude
159.66667° or 159° 40′ east
Elevation
1,895 metres (6,217 feet)
Named after
Professor Robin Sutcliffe Allan
Open location code
2RMX7MM8+8M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Allan Hills” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Allan Hills”
- Chinese: “阿倫山”
- French: “Collines d’Allan”
- German: “Allan Hills”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Allan”
- Japanese: “アラン・ヒルズ”
- Latvian: “Elana kalni”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Allan Hills”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Allan Hills”
- Norwegian: “Allan Hills”
- Swedish: “Allan Hills (kulle)”
- Swedish: “Allan Hills”
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