Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, with Camp Byers in the foreground, and left to right Tsamblak Hill, Negro Hill and Dometa Point in the background
Topographic map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith IslandsNegro Hill is a conspicuous rocky hill, double-peaked with a small tarn in between, rising to 100 m at South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It surmounts Fontus Lake on the south. The area was visited by 19th-century sealers.
The feature was descriptively named Morro Negro (Spanish for "Black Hill") by an expedition from the Argentine Antarctic Program in about 1959.
Location
Negro Hill is located at 62°39′16.2″S 61°00′06″W / 62.654500°S 61.00167°W / -62.654500; -61.00167, which is 1.1 km northeast of Dometa Point, 4.99 km east-northeast of Nikopol Point, 4.71 km east-southeast of Chester Cone, 1.95 km south of Tsamblak Hill and 4.04 km west-northwest of Rish Point (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
