Denton Hills

The Denton Hills (78°05′00″S 163°55′00″E / 78.0833333°S 163.9166667°E / -78.0833333; 163.9166667 (Denton Hills)) are a group of rugged foothills, 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) long southwest–northeast and 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) wide, to the east of the Royal Society Range on the Scott Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica.

The principal glaciers (Hobbs, Blackwelder, Salmon, Garwood, Joyce, Rivard, Miers, Adams, Ward) flow east but have receded, leaving several dry valleys.

[1] The Denton Hills were discovered and roughly mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott.

[1] The hills were named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN; 1999) after Professor George H. Denton of the Department of Geological Sciences and the Institute for Quaternary Studies, University of Maine, who conducted geological research in the Transantarctic Mountains and Victoria Land (including work in these hills), 1958–99, making more than 25 visits to Antarctica.

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Denton Hills south of Blue Glacier, beside McMurdo Sound, in south of map
Denton Hill to the north of map, above Heald Island