Camp Hill (HILL)
63˚41’S, 57˚52’W Magnetic declination: 11.9˚E Inventory subarea: NE Inventory acronym: HILL Site Sensitivity: LOW Location — History — Features Small, ice-free hill, 120 meters in elevation, located 2 miles E of Church Point on S side of the Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1946 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey and named for geological camp established at base of this hill. Landing Characteristics Broad landing beach below this ice-free hill. All access inland is uphill, and often steep. Antarctic Site Inventory Effort Visits by Antarctic Site Inventory researchers, 1994-2003: 1. February 20, 2002 RN Endeavour 2. February 17, 2003 MB Endeavour Assessment and monitoring . Preliminary surveying. Fauna — Flora — Censuses Penguins & flying birds . Antarctic terns observed feeding a chick on the landing beach; no nests observed. Kelp gulls and south polar skuas also observed, but breeding not confirmed. Seals . Weddell seal observed on the landing beach. Flora . Scattered large patches of Usnea lichens at higher elevations and inland, and many crustose lichens ( Caloplaca , Xanthoria , Verrucaria , spp.) on jagged, seaward-facing rocks. Conservation Aspects Site sensitivities . None noted. Visitation Aspects Numbers of tourist zodiac landings and participating visitors, 1989-2003:
Note : Inventory researchers visited this site from a tour ship during the 2001-02 season; however, this landing is, inexplicably, not listed in the NSF compilations. Proximate visitor sites . On the Trinity Peninsula: Jade Point, Crystal Hill, Bald Head, and View Point; Cape Burd on the Tabarin Peninsula; Devil Island; and False Island Point on Vega Island. |
