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Morrison Hills: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Morrison Hills in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Morrison Hills

Feature Class (see definition): Range

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 10283

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 84° 12' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 168° 40' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -84.2

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 168.6666667

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1966

Description (see definition): A series of rugged E-W trending hills between Garrard Glacier and Hewson Glacier in Queen Alexandra Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Lieutenant I. James Morrison, USN, who did preliminary work leading to the induction of C-130 aircraft into Antarctica in February 1960, and who also participated in U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz) for several seasons 1958-59.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Morrison Hills in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Morrison Hills information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Morrison Hills should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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