Cumulus Hills is a several groups of largely barren hills, divided by the Logie Glacier

Logie Glacier

Logie Glacier is a tributary glacier, about 10 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, flowing west through the Cumulus Hills to enter Shackleton Glacier just northeast of Vickers Nunatak. Named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition for W.R...

. They are bounded by Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from 8 to 16 km wide, descending from the polar plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs. The Roberts Massif...

 on the west, McGregor Glacier

McGregor Glacier

McGregor Glacier is a tributary glacier, 14 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide, draining the southwest slopes of the Prince Olav Mountains and flowing west to enter Shackleton Glacier just north of Cumulus Hills. Named by the Southern Party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic...

 on the north and Zaneveld Glacier

Zaneveld Glacier

Zaneveld Glacier is a broad tributary glacier, flowing from the polar plateau northwest between Roberts Massif and Cumulus Hills to enter the upper part of Shackleton Glacier. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Jacques S...

 on the south. The exposed rock in this area was observed on a number of occasions to give rise to the formation of cumulus clouds, considered to be very rare at this elevation. Named by the Southern Party

Southern Party

The Southern Party was a minor political party in the United States that operated exclusively in the South. The party supported states' rights and increased Southern cultural and regionalist activism....

 of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition

The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active in 1957-58 and again in 1958-59. The 1957-58 expedition went to the Ross Dependency and named the Borchgrevink Glacier...

(NZGSAE) (1961–62) because of these clouds.