The Liberty Hills () are a line of rugged hills and peaks with bare rock eastern slopes, about long, standing northwest of the

Marble Hills The Marble Hills () are a group of mainly ice-free hills in West Antarctica. They are located on the west side of Horseshoe Valley, between the Liberty Hills and Independence Hills in the southern part of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. T ...

and forming part of the west wall of

Horseshoe Valley Horseshoe Valley may refer to: * Horseshoe Valley (Antarctica) * Horseshoe Valley (Peleliu) * Horseshoe Valley (Missouri) * Horseshoe Valley (North Dakota) * Horseshoe Valley (Nebraska) * Horseshoe Valley, North Dakota * Horseshoe Resort Ho ...

, 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 ...

Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. The Liberty Hills were mapped by the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...

from ground surveys and

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage of ...

air photos, 1961–66. The name was applied by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

in association with the name Heritage Range. The remarkable

High Nunatak High Nunatak () is an isolated nunatak east of the Liberty Hills in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Elmer High, a helicopter crew chief with the 62nd Transp ...

towers east of the Hills.

Maps

Liberty Hills.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1966.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Features

Geographical features include:

* Kelley Peak * Moulder Peak *

Mount Rosenthal Mount Rosenthal () is a prominent mountain, 1,840 m, at the north end of Liberty Hills, in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander Ronald Rosenthal, U.S. Navy, na ...

* Sponholz Peak

References

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