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

Feature Class (see definition): Range

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 5064

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 78° 24' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 084° 10' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -78.4

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -84.1666667

Elevation (see definition): 1390

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1961

Description (see definition): A group of hills, 20 mi long and with peaks of 1,240 and 1,390 m, lying S of the terminus of Dater Glacier and extending along the E edge of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy (USN) air photos, 1957-59. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Edwin C. Flowers, meteorologist at the South Pole Station in 1957.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

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


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