Virchow Hill


Virchow Hill is a hill between Lister Glacier and Pare Glacier in the north part of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1953, but not named. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57 part of Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, and mapped from these photos in 1959. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Rudolf Virchow, German pioneer of pathological research.

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