Lloyd Hill

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Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands. Greenwich-Island-location-map.png
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Lloyd Hill (on the left) from Half Moon Island, with Kotrag Nunatak and Altsek Nunatak in the foreground. Altsek-Nunatak.jpg
Lloyd Hill (on the left) from Half Moon Island, with Kotrag Nunatak and Altsek Nunatak in the foreground.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Lloyd Hill is an ice-covered hill rising to 335 m in the southwest of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The hill surmounts Teteven Glacier to the north and Murgash Glacier to the southeast.

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The name derives from 'Lloyd's Land', an early name for Greenwich Island.

Location

The peak is located at 62°29′23.4″S59°53′25.9″W / 62.489833°S 59.890528°W / -62.489833; -59.890528 which is 2,6 km south by west of Sevtopolis Peak, 4.9 km southeast of Mount Plymouth, 2.38 km west-northwest of Tile Ridge, 2.17 km north-northeast of Yovkov Point and 3.4 km east of Kerseblept Nunatak (British mapping in 1962 and 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

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