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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.
Maps
Scale
1:250000
topographic map
of
Antarctica
. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Since 1993, regularly
upgraded
and updated.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64
62
.
Directorate of Overseas Surveys
, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map.
British Antarctic Survey
, 2008.