The Gross Hills () are the line of rugged hills and peaks located east of
Schmidt Glacier, in the
Heritage Range
The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, long and wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range is complex, consisting of scattered ridges and peaks of mod ...
of Antarctica. They were named by the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
Geological Party, 1963–64, for
Barton Gross
Barton may refer to:
Places Australia
* Barton, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
* Division of Barton, an electoral district in New South Wales
* Barton, Victoria, a locality near Moyston
Canada
* Barton, Newfoundland and ...
, a geologist with the party.
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Features
Geographical features include:
* Courtney Peak
* Flanagan Glacier
Flanagan Glacier () is a glacier in the Pioneer Heights of the Heritage Range, Antarctica, draining east from Thompson Escarpment between the Gross Hills and the Nimbus Hills to the confluent ice at the lower end of Union Glacier. It was mappe ...
* Rosen Peak
Rosen Peak () is a peak rising to 1220 m in the south part of Gross Hills, Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2004) after Lawrence C. Rosen, a geologist on the United States A ...
* Schmidt Glacier
* Ziegler Point
Ziegler Point () is a high rock point, or spur, on the southeast side of Gross Hills in the Heritage Range. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarcti ...