Cone Hill () is a hill northeast of
Castle Rock Castle Rock may refer to:
Geography Islands
* Castle Rock (Alaskan Island), an island off the coast of the U.S. state of Alaska
* Castle Rock, Hong Kong (螺洲白排), an island of Hong Kong, part of the Po Toi Islands
* Castle Rock (Massachusett ...
on
Hut Point Peninsula
Hut Point Peninsula () is a long, narrow peninsula from wide and long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station (US) and Scott Base (NZ) are Antarctic research stations located on the ...
,
Ross Island
Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound. Ross Island lies within the boundaries of Ross Dependency, an area of Antarctica claimed by N ...
. The descriptive name Cone Hill I was used by the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13
The ''Terra Nova'' Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition had various scientific and geographical objec ...
under
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ...
, but the form Cone Hill has come into general use.
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References
Hills of Ross Island
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