Nimbus Hills

- 79.583333333333 - 82.833333333333Koordinaten: 79 ° 35 ' S, 82 ° 50 ' W

The Nimbus Hills are a about 14 nautical miles (about 26 km ) long, rugged chain of hills and peaks in the West Antarctic Heritage Range. They form the south-eastern part of the Pioneer Heights. One of the peaks of the chain is the 1,810 m high Mount Capley.

North of the Nimbus Hills flows Flanagan Glacier. In the south of the chain are the Samuel nunataks, the South East Buchanan Hills. From the foothills of Mount Capley the Donald Ridge leads to the south.

The Nimbus Hills were mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the compilation of Ellsworthgebirges in the years 1961-66 by site surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them after the NASA weather satellite Nimbus 1 of the Nimbus program, were made with the on September 13, 1964 from an altitude of about 800 kilometers recordings of the Antarctic ( including the Ellsworthgebirges ).