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Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Poisson Hill is a rounded ice-free hill rising to 80 m at the north extremity of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting the Chilean Antarctic base Arturo Prat to the west-southwest. Angamos Hill (55 m) is lying 370 m north-northeast of it and 850 m south-southeast of Ash Point.

Poisson Hill was charted by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition and named after Sub-Lieutenant Maurice Poisson who signed the official act of inauguration of Arturo Prat Base in 1947, while Angamos Hill was named after that expedition's transport ship Angamos.

Location

Poisson Hill is located at 62°28′39″S 59°39′03″W which is 1.08 km south by east of Ash Point, 740 m northwest of López Nunatak and 700 m east-northeast of Arturo Prat Base (British mapping of the area in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.