Baliza Hill


Baliza Hill is the conspicuous rocky hill rising to 40 m in the southeast extremity of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting Menguante Cove to the north-northwest, McFarlane Strait to the northeast and east, and Mugla Passage to the south. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating from nearby Yankee Harbour.
The feature's name is descriptive and appeared in a 2000 publication following Argentine ornithological research on the island, and in the 2005 and 2009 Bulgarian maps of Livingston Island.

Location

The hill located at which is 1.2 km east of La Morenita hill, 1.54 km south-southeast of Xenia Hill, 10.11 km west-southwest of Ephraim Bluff, Greenwich Island, 4.96 km west-northwest of Renier Point, Livingston Island, 3.51 km north-northwest of Kaloyan Nunatak, Livingston Island and 1.5 km from the north coast of Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island.

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