Margaret Hill
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Margaret Hill is a peak
rising to 1874 m on Rucker Ridge
, 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Mount Rucker
, Royal Society Range
, Victoria Land
. Named after Margaret Clark
, a geologist with the 1977-78 New Zealand Geological Survey field party in this area. The form of the name has been selected to avoid redundancy of the name Clark in the region.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
rising to 1874 m on Rucker Ridge
Rucker Ridge
Rucker Ridge is a high spur descending east from pointed Mount Rucker in Royal Society Range and forming the divide between Radian and Walcott Glaciers. Named after Mount Rucker by the New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition , 1960-61....
, 5 nautical miles (9 km) east of Mount Rucker
Mount Rucker
Mount Rucker is a mountain, 3,815 m, immediately south of Johns Hopkins Ridge in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land. Discovered by the Discovery expedition which named it for Sir Arthur Rucker, Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society....
, Royal Society Range
Royal Society Range
The Royal Society Range is a majestic mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Mount Lister forms the highest point in this range. Mount Lister is located along the western shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koettlitz, Skelton and Ferrar glaciers...
, 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...
. Named after Margaret Clark
Margaret Clark
Margaret Clark is the former mayor of Rosemead, California. Having previously served five terms, she now serves on the Rosemead city council.When she was re-elected mayor in 2009, she stated: "I'll look at each project that comes before us individually," she said. "The council sets policy... We...
, a geologist with the 1977-78 New Zealand Geological Survey field party in this area. The form of the name has been selected to avoid redundancy of the name Clark in the region.