Hess Mountains [SEP] continent
Hess Mountains
The Hess Mountains () are a group of mountains rising to about at the head of Hilton Inlet on the Black Coast of Antarctica, to the west of Dietz Bluff and bounded to the north by Gruening Glacier, to the west by Runcorn Glacier and to the south by Beaumont Glacier. The mountains were first photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service, 1940, and were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Navy, 1966–69. They were surveyed by the
, so boundaries were seldom distinct.
See also.
- Interior Salish languages
- Tillamook (extinct Salishan language)
Bibliography.
- Bates, Dawn, Hess, Thom, and Hilbert, Vi; map by Dassow, Laura, 1994, Lushootseed dictionary, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, . (alk. paper) Revised and expanded update of Hess, Thom, "Dictionary of Puget Salish" (University of Washington Press, 1976). Accessed Sep 24, 2009.
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