Henderson Hill is an ice free summit 0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km) northeast of Mount Falconer

Mount Falconer

Mount Falconer is a mountain surmounting Lake Fryxell on the north wall of Taylor Valley, between Mount McLennan and Commonwealth Glacier. Its elevation is . Named by the Western Journey Party, led by Taylor, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13....

, rising to 700 m on the north side of Taylor Valley

Taylor Valley

Taylor Valley is the southern one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, Victoria Land, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately . The valley extends from Taylor Glacier in the west to McMurdo Sound at Explorers Cove at the northwest head of New Harbour in the east...

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. The name Henderson Hill appears in a 1968 report and geologic sketch map of the area prepared by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1965–66, and is presumably named after Robert A. Henderson, a member of the VUWAE field party, later with the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, Cambridge, Massachusetts.