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Tower Hill: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Tower Hill 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): Tower Hill

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 15453

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 42' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 060° 45' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.7

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -60.75

Elevation (see definition): 1125

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1952

Description (see definition): Sharp conical summit, 1,125 m, surmounting the NW part of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago. The origin of the name is not known, but it may be associated with the voyage in 1824-25 of the British sealer Sprightly under Captain Edward Hughes.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Tower Hill 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 Tower Hill information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Tower Hill should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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