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The Allan Hills are a group of hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
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Shimmering Icefield is an icefield between the Shipton and Tilman Ridges in the Allan Hills, Oates Land in East Antarctica. It was reconnoitered in 1964 by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme's Allan Hills Expedition, who gave the name because of its frequently nacreous luster when viewed against the sun.
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Windwhistle Peak is a square sandstone peak south of Punchbowl Cirque in the Allan Hills, Oates Land. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition (1964) which so named the peak because of the peculiar behavior of the wind in its vicinity.
Mount Allan Thomson is a conspicuous mountain surmounted by a dark peak over 1,400 m which stands at the north side of Mackay Glacier, about 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of the mouth of Cleveland Glacier in Victoria Land. Charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) for J. Allan Thomson, British geologist who assisted in writing the scientific reports of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09.
The Ashen Hills are a ridge of rounded hills of gullied ash terminating in Nattriss Point at the southeast end of Saunders Island, South Sandwich Islands. The name applied by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 refers to the ashy composition and pale color of the hills.
Ballance Peak is the highest peak at the southern end of the Allan Hills in Oates Land. It was reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition (1964) and named for P.F. Ballance, a geologist with the expedition. The MacDonald Spur extends from the Peak to the East.
Brock Gully is a valley one nautical mile south of Windwhistle Peak in the Allan Hills of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition (1964) who named it after the dialect name for a badger because of the resemblance to badger country in parts of England.
Catspaw Glacier is a small alpine glacier just west of Stocking Glacier, flowing south from the slopes north of Taylor Glacier, in Victoria Land. It was so named by Thomas Griffith Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, because of its resemblance to a cat's paw.
Coxcomb Peak is a dolerite elevation which overlooks the south end of Plumstead Valley in the Allan Hills, Victoria Land. It was reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition (1964) who gave the name because of the jaunty appearance of the feature in profile.
Trudge Valley is a valley on the southern side of Windwhistle Peak in the Allan Hills, Oates Land. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition (1964) who named it after the many journeys along its length.
Punchbowl Cirque is a cirque in the southern part of Shipton Ridge, about 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southwest of Roscolyn Tor, in the Allan Hills of Oates Land. It was reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition (1964), which gave the descriptive name.
Platypus Ridge is a large ice-covered ridge bordering the west side of the mouth of Lillie Glacier. It extends northeast from Bowers Mountains to the head of Ob' Bay. Its position was fixed by S.L. Kirkby, surveyor with ANARE in February 1962. Named by ANARE after this monotreme mammal, native only to Australia.
Feistmantel Valley is a fossiliferous valley lying south of Shimmering Icefield and west of Mount Watters in the Allan Hills, Oates Land, Antarctica. It was reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition (1964), who named it after Professor Otokar Feistmantel, who made pioneering studies of Gondwana flora.
Gadarene Ridge is a ridge extending southward from Ship Cone in the Allan Hills of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program Allan Hills Expedition (1964) who gave the name, with reference to the Gadarene swine of the Bible, because of the swine-backed appearance of the feature in profile.
The Mixon Rocks are rock outcrops about 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) west of Gadarene Ridge in the Allan Hills of Oates Land, Antarctica. They were reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme Allan Hills Expedition, 1964, who named this feature for Lieutenant William A. Mixon, a U.S. Navy medical officer at McMurdo Station who treated an injured member of the expedition.
Roscolyn Tor is a high sandstone feature about 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southwest of Warren Peak in the Allan Hills of Victoria Land. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition (1964) who gave the name after a similar feature at Rhoscolyn in Anglesey, Wales.
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