Gneiss Hills
The Gneiss Hills are two prominent hills, 270 and 260 metres high, at the west side of McLeod Glacier in the south part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garnet Hill and Confusion Island.
Garnet Hill
Peak
Garnet Hill is a rocky hill, 230 metres high, rising above the east side of McLeod Glacier in the south part of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.
Confusion Island
Islet
Confusion Island is an island 0.2 nautical miles long at the west side of the entrance to Clowes Bay, off the south side of Signy Island. The southern point of the island was charted and named Confusion Point by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1933.
McLeod Glacier
Glacier
McLeod Glacier is a glacier 1 nautical mile long, flowing in a southeasterly direction into Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica.
Gneiss Hills
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 260 metres
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.73342° or 60° 44′ 0″ southLongitude
-45.65003° or 45° 39′ 0″ westElevation
260 metres (853 feet)Open location code
38FP788X+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 9255923049OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Swedish—“Gneiss Hills” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Gneiss Hills”
- Cebuano: “Gneiss Hills”
- Chinese: “奈斯山脈”
- Dutch: “Gneiss Hills”
- German: “Gneiss Hills”
- Ladin: “Gneiss Hills”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gneiss Hills”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gneiss Hills”
- Swedish: “Gneiss Hills”
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