Kukri Hills
Name StatusOfficial ValidatedFeatureHillsNZ Gazette Reference2012 (53) p.1477DatumRSRGD2000GeoTag[1] PositionDescriptionA peninsula of grey granite surmounted by peaks about 900 to 1800 m high extending about 26 miles in a west-south-west-east-north-east, and forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south, and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Glacier Dry Valley on the nroth, in Victoria Land. Discovered by the NAE, 1901-04,and so named because its shape resembles that of a kukri, a Gurkha knife. Not Kurki Hills.
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Kukri Hills. Antarctica NZ, accessed 10/12/2024, https://adam.antarcticanz.govt.nz/nodes/view/21014