The Coombs Hills are an area of broken and largely snow-free hills and valleys between Odell Glacier

Odell Glacier

Odell Glacier is a glacier draining northeast between Allan Hills and Coombs Hills into the upper Mawson Glacier in Oates Land. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Professor N.E. Odell, formerly of Otago University, New Zealand....

 and Cambridge Glacier

Cambridge Glacier

Cambridge Glacier is a wide sheetlike glacier between the Convoy Range and the Coombs Hills, draining south into the Mackay Glacier between Mount Bergen and Gateway Nunatak...

 in Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. They were discovered in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...

 (1956–58) and named by them for D.S. Coombs, professor of geology at the University of Otago

University of Otago

The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 22,000 students enrolled during 2010.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it...

, New Zealand, who assisted the expedition in obtaining essential petrological equipment.