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Feature Name (see definition): Terrapin Hill Feature Class (see definition): Summit Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 15150 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 63° 58' 00" S Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 057° 32' 00" W Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -63.9666667 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -57.5333333 Elevation (see definition): 545 Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1952 Description (see definition): Rounded, reddish-colored hill, 545 m high, standing at the S end of The Naze, a peninsula of northern James Ross Island, close S of Trinity Peninsula. This area was first explored by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, under Nordenskjold. Terrapin Hill was first charted by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1945, who in 1948 applied this name which is descriptive of its shape. Date Created (see definition): No data Date Edited (see definition): No data NOTE: The information regarding Terrapin 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 Terrapin Hill information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Terrapin Hill should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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