touchdown, hills, group, snow, covered, hills, extending, south, from, vahsel, east, side, filchner, shelf, named, commonwealth, trans, antarctic, expedition, 1957, because, expedition, members, while, piloting, plane, fitted, with, skis, mistook, these, hills. Touchdown Hills 78 7 S 35 0 W 78 117 S 35 000 W 78 117 35 000 is a group of snow covered hills extending south from Vahsel Bay on the east side of the Filchner Ice Shelf So named by the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition in 1957 because one of the expedition members while piloting a plane fitted with skis mistook these hills for clouds and hit them bounding upwards undamaged See also editGrand ChasmsReferences edit nbsp This article incorporates public domain material from Touchdown Hills Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey nbsp Portal nbsp Geography nbsp This Coats Land location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Touchdown Hills amp oldid 1085183637, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
