Stair Hill () is a hill at the south side of the head of
Holtedahl Bay
Holtedahl Bay () is a bay, long in a northwest–southeast direction and averaging wide, between Velingrad Peninsula and Stresher Peninsula along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The bay is entered southwest of Prospect Point and nor ...
, on the west coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
, Antarctica. Photographed by
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd was a British aerial photography
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. in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
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(FIDS). Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
(UK-APC) in 1959 for
Ralph Stair of the
U.S. National Bureau
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of Standards, whose work on the transmissive properties of tinted glass has contributed to the design of satisfactory snow goggles.
Hills of Graham Land
Loubet Coast
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