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Darley Hills

Range of hills in the Churchill Mountains, Antarctica

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| volcanic_arc/belt = The Darley Hills () are a range of high, ice-covered coastal hills in the Churchill Mountains, Antarctica.

Location

The Darley Hills overlook the Ross Ice Shelf, and trend north–south for about 20 nmi between Cape Douglas and Cape Parr. To the west, they are bounded by the Skinner Saddle in the north, from which Nursery Glacier flows south and then east into the Ross Ice Shelf.

Name

The hills were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James M. Darley, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society, 1940–63, under whose direction many important maps of Antarctica were published.

Features

Geographical features from north to south include:

Skinner Saddle

Riddiford Nunatak

Abercrombie Crests

Chamberlin Rampart

Constellation Dome

Gentile Point

Fisher Point

A rock coastal point on the east margin of the Darley Hills, in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. The point marks the south side of the mouth of ice-filled Grazzini Bay at the Ross Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Franklin L. Fisher, Chief of the Illustrations Division, National Geographic, about 1905–49.

Grazzini Bay

An ice-filled coastal embayment, 2 nmi, between Gentile Point and Fisher Point on the east side of the Darley Hills, in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. The bay opens to the Ross Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Athos D. Grazzini, a cartographer and toponymic specialist on the National Geographic staff from about 1950–70.

Boyer Bluff

Nursery Glacier

Main article: Nursery Glacier

References

Sources

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