Independence Hills

- 80.416666666667 - 81.55Koordinaten: 80 ° 25 ' S, 81 ° 33 ' W

The Independence Hills ( German: Independence Mountains) are a 16 -kilometer-long mountain chain that is part of the Heritage Range of mountains in the southern foothills of the West Antarctic Ellsworthgebirges. They are located about 4.8 kilometers southeast of the Marble Hills, forming the southernmost part of the west wall of the Horseshoe Valley.

Geography

The Independence Hills extend from the northwest to the southeast. In the north they are connected by the Morris Cliff with the Marble Hills. About 3 miles northeast of the ridge lie the Patriot Hills, are operated in the lee of the Patriot Hills base camp and a blue ice runway. In the south of the chain is the 1,430 meter high Mount Shattuck, south to connect to the further the Redpath Peaks.

The peaks of the chain are Mount Simmons in the north, Mount scourge and Mount Shattuck in the south.

History

The Independence Hills were mapped by the United States Geological Survey for the years 1961-66 through spot audits and aerial photos of the U.S. Navy. Your name, as with all surveys of the Heritage Range has a reference to the cultural heritage of the United States, the chain was given in 1964 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names.

In the winter of 1997-98 resulted in a common research expedition of the Carnegie Mellon University, NASA Ames Research Center and the University of Pittsburgh in the area between the Independence Hills and the Patriot Hills experiments with the robot Nomad by, which was built to autonomously stones and to investigate meteorites in polar regions and identify.