The Coombs Hills () are an area of broken and largely snow-free hills and valleys between
Odell Glacier
Odell Glacier is a glacier draining northeast between Allan Hills and Coombs Hills into the upper Mawson Glacier in Oates Land. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Professor N.E. Odell, formerly of Otago Univer ...
and
Cambridge Glacier in
Victoria Land. They were discovered in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) and named by them for
D.S. Coombs, professor of geology at the
University of Otago, New Zealand, who assisted the expedition in obtaining essential petrological equipment.
Geology
Mount Brooke
Mount Brooke () is a large isolated mountain in Antarctica, high, standing northwest of Mount Gran and dominating the area near the heads of Mackay Glacier and Mawson Glacier. It was named for Lieutenant Commander F.R. Brooke, Royal Navy, le ...
and the
Jurassic Mawson Formation dominate the southwest end of Coombs Hills. The Jurassic Ferrar
Dolerite outcrops to the east, encompassing pockets of the
Triassic Lashly Formation.
External links
USGS topographic map of Coombs Hills
References
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Hills of Oates Land
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