Kukri Hills (77°44′S 162°42′E / 77.733°S 162.700°E / -77.733; 162.700) is a prominent east-west trending range, about 25 nautical miles (46 km) long and over 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) high, forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley on the north, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
The hills were discovered by the Discovery Expedition (1901–04) and probably so named because its shape resembles that of the Kukri, a Gurkha knife.
[2] The hills stretch east with, with prominent peaks from west to east including Mount Coates, Sentinel Peak, Bonney Riegel, Nussbaum Regel, Andrew's Ridge, and Mount Barnes where the hills terminate in New Harbor.
A bold rock point which forms the west end of Kukri Hills, overlooking Taylor Glacier.
A cirque 2 miles (3 km) east of South America Glacier on the southern cliffs of the Kukri Hills.
A sharp peak, 2,010 metres (6,590 ft) high, which is the westernmost summit of the Kukri Hills.
Named by the Western Journey Party, led by Thomas Griffith Taylor, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13.
Peak, 2,060 metres (6,760 ft) high, just east of Borns Glacier in the Kukri Hills.
Named in 1992 by US-ACAN after Roger S. Duff (d. 1978), for 30 years director of the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.
To celebrate the Museum's centenary in 1970, a Hundredth Anniversary Wing was planned which would incorporate a National Antarctic Exhibition, Research and Reference Center.
A peak, 985 metres (3,232 ft) high, surmounting the west-central side of New Harbour and marking the east end of the Kukri Hills.
Named by the US-ACAN for Harold W. Borns, Jr., USARP geologist who made investigations in the area during 1960–61.
Small alpine glacier flowing toward Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley from the Kukri Hills on the south, in Victoria Land.
Mapped by the Western Geological Party led by Taylor of the BrAE (1910–13) and named for Prof. McKenny Hughes, geologist, of Cambridge.
Named by the US-ACAN for USARP biologist Charles R. Goldman, who made studies in the area in the 1962–63 season.
Péwé, who named it for Arthur D. Howard, geomorphologist of Stanford University, and glaciologist in Antarctica during USN OpHjp, 1946–47.
The glacier was studied by U.S. geologist Troy L. Péwé in December 1957, and was so named by him because of its crescent shape when viewed from the floor of Taylor Valley.
Short alpine glacier just west of Mount Barnes at the east end of the Kukri Hills.
It descends the southern side of Kukri Hills midway between Mount Coates and Sentinel Peak.