Conical Hill
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Conical Hill is a small but distinctive rock hill, 655 metre high, on the southern slopes of Mount Terror
, above Cape MacKay
, on Ross Island
. It was given this descriptive name by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott
.
Mount Terror (Antarctica)
Mount Terror is a large shield volcano that forms the eastern part of Ross Island, Antarctica. It has numerous cinder cones and domes on the flanks of the shield and is mostly under snow and ice. It is the second largest of the four volcanoes which make up Ross Island and is somewhat overshadowed...
, above Cape MacKay
Cape MacKay
Cape MacKay is an ice-covered cape which forms the southeast extremity of Ross Island. Discovered by the Discovery expedition and named for Captain Harry MacKay, commander of the Terra Nova, one of the relief ships for the expedition....
, on Ross Island
Ross Island
Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.-Geography:...
. It was given this descriptive name by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, under Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
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