Aureole Hills
Encyclopedia
The Aureole Hills are a pair of smooth, conical, ice-covered hill
s, the higher reaching to 1080 metres (3,543.3 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.
Hill
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. Hills often have a distinct summit, although in areas with scarp/dip topography a hill may refer to a particular section of flat terrain without a massive summit A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. Hills...
s, the higher reaching to 1080 metres (3,543.3 ft), standing close west of the north end of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...
, Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
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. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.