Theodolite Hill
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Theodolite Hill is a hill, 680 m, with a small rock outcrop at its summit, standing at the southeast corner of a plateau-type mountain
Mountain
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 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of the northwest end of Duse Bay
Duse Bay
Duse Bay is a bay indenting the south side of Trinity Peninsula between View Point and the west side of Tabarin Peninsula. It was discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson, of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04. Duse Bay was named by Nordenskjold, leader of the Swedish Antarctic...

, in the northeast part of Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

. Discovered by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1946, and so named during their survey of the area because it served as an important theodolite station.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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