Tinsel Dome

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Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Tinsel Dome ( 63°44′S58°55′W / 63.733°S 58.917°W / -63.733; -58.917 Coordinates: 63°44′S58°55′W / 63.733°S 58.917°W / -63.733; -58.917 ) is a small ice-covered hill, 700 m, standing between Aureole Hills and Bone Bay on Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who gave this descriptive name.

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