Negro Hill Explained

Negro Hill is a conspicuous rocky hill, double-peaked with a small tarn in between, rising to 100 m at South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It surmounts Fontus Lake on the south. The area was visited by 19th-century sealers.

The feature was descriptively named Morro Negro (Spanish for "Black Hill") by an expedition from the Argentine Antarctic Program in about 1959.

Location

Negro Hill is located at -62.6545°N -61.0017°W, which is 1.1 km northeast of Dometa Point, 4.99 km east-northeast of Nikopol Point, 4.71 km east-southeast of Chester Cone, 1.95 km south of Tsamblak Hill and 4.04 km west-northwest of Rish Point (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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