How tall is the hill that the Freighter "G-AICS" crashed into in 1958?
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Winter Hill air disaster The Winter Hill air disaster occurred on 27 February 1958 when the Silver City Airways Bristol 170 Freighter "G-AICS", traveling from the Isle of Man to Manchester, England, crashed into Winter Hill (also known as Rivington Moor) several hundred yards away from the Independent Television Authority's Winter Hill transmitting station.
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Winter Hill (North West England) Winter Hill is a hill on the border of the boroughs of Chorley, Blackburn with Darwen and Bolton, in North West England. It is located on Rivington Moor, Chorley and is 1496 ft high. Part of the West Pennine Moors, it is a popular walking area, and has been the site of mining activity, aeroplane disasters and murders.
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Gamma Hill Gamma Hill ( ) is a distinctive ice-covered hill on Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica, rising more than 300 m on the shore of Fridtjof Sound. The name arises from the intensive geophysical work carried out in this part of Tabarin Peninsula by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959–60.
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Parachute Jump The Parachute Jump is a defunct amusement ride in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, whose iconic open-frame steel structure remains a Brooklyn landmark. 250 ft tall and weighing 170 tons (150 tonnes), it has been called the "Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn".
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Mast Hill Mast Hill ( ) is a hill 14 m high about 100 meters from the western end of Stonington Island, Marguerite Bay, on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was surveyed by the East Base party of the U.S. Antarctic Service, 1939–41, which erected a flag staff (or "mast") on this hill and built its base close northeastward.
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Hughes Mining Barge The Hughes Mining Barge, or HMB-1, is a submersible barge about 99 m (324 ft) long, 32 m (106 ft) wide, and more than 27 m (90 ft) tall. The "HMB-1" was originally developed as part of Project Azorian (more widely, but erroneously, known as "Project Jennifer"), the top-secret effort mounted by the Central Intelligence Agency to salvage the remains of the Soviet submarine "K-129" from the ocean floor.
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Green Hill, New Zealand Green Hill (also Matanginui or Greenmount) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field, located in the suburb of Greenmount. Its scoria cone had a peak 78 metres above sea level (around 48 m higher than the surrounding land), and had a grove of karaka trees. The hill was the site of a pā. It was quarried from 1870 onwards, and has been mostly quarried away. The site is now Greenmount landfill. Green Hill and nearby Otara Hill were together referred to as Bessy Bell and Mary Gray after an old Scottish ballad.
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Leith Hill Leith Hill is a wooded hill 7 km to the south west of Dorking, Surrey, England. It reaches 294 m above sea level, the highest point on the Greensand Ridge, and is the second highest point in south-east England, after Walbury Hill near Hungerford, West Berkshire, 297 m high. Leith Hill is the highest ground for 49 miles.
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Crocus Hill Crocus Hill is the highest point of Anguilla, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, with an elevation of 65 m . The hill is located nearby the capital town of The Valley. Crocus Bay (west of the hill) was named after Crocus Hill.
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Sophienhöhe The Sophienhöhe (301.8 m AMSL) is the largest artificial hill worldwide, created by surface mining at the open cast lignite mine Tagebau Hambach operated by RWE Power AG in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Tioga Hill Tioga Hill ( ) is a rounded summit, 290 m, standing at the west side the head of McLeod Glacier on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. The hill is the highest point on the island. Surveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1954 for the Tioga, owned by Messrs. Christensen and Co. (Corral, Chile), which was one of the first floating factories to flense whales at sea. It was wrecked at nearby Port Jebsen during a gale on February 4, 1913.
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Bald Hill (Farmingville, New York) Bald Hill, located in the hamlet of Farmingville, New York, part of the Town of Brookhaven, is one of the highest areas of elevation on Long Island. The highest elevation in the Bald Hill area is 331 ft . Though local residents often claim it to be the highest point on Long Island, that honor actually belongs to Jayne's Hill in the Town of Huntington at 401 ft . Also, nearby Telescope Hill, about 0.8 mi WSW, is slightly higher at 334 ft . Bald Hill in Brookhaven should also not be confused with Bald Hill in Riverhead.
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Greben Hill Greben Hill (Bulgarian: "хълм Гребен" , ‘Halm Greben’ \'h&lm 'gre-ben\) is the hill rising to 924 m in Srednogorie Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 2.81 km north-northwest of Ledenika Peak, 5.12 km southwest of Corner Peak and 3.42 km southeast of Hanson Hill. Surmounting Malorad Glacier to the north.
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Dominion Hill Dominion Hill ( ) is a rounded rock summit rising to about 900 m in the eastern part of Noxon Cliff, Victoria Land. Dominion Hill bounds the north edge of Commonwealth Glacier where it descends southeastward into Taylor Valley. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1998 after "dominion", a form of government to complement the Commonwealth (of Australia) Glacier.
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Poklonnaya Hill Poklonnaya Gora (Russian: Покло́нная гора́ , literally "bow-down hill"; metaphorically "Worshipful Submission Hill"') was, at 171.5 metres, one of the highest spots in Moscow. Its two summits used to be separated by the Setun River, until one of the summits was razed in 1987. Since 1936, the area has been part of Moscow and now contains the Victory Park with many tanks and other vehicles used in the Second World War on display.
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Boot Hill (lunar mountain) Boot Hill is a small lunar mountain that is located in Mare Tranquillitatis, about 45 km south of the crater Maskelyne, and about 210 km east of the Apollo 11 landing site. The peak at its north end rises approximately 230 m above the surrounding mare.
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Leopoldsberg The Leopoldsberg (] ; 425 m, 1,394 ft) is perhaps Vienna’s most famous hill, towering over the Danube and the city. Leopoldberg’s most prominent landmark is the church which stands at the top, and which is clearly visible from Vienna below. Construction of the , dedicated to Saint Leopold, began in 1679; an expansion following a design by Antonio Beduzzi was undertaken 171830. Other renovations were to follow. Across the square from the church, on what used to be a tower of the fortification system, a memorial to those Austrians who returned home from captivity after World War II was created in 1948.
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Crystal Hill Crystal Hill ( ) is an ice-free hill, 150 m high, forming the summit of a headland between Bald Head and Camp Hill on the south side of the Trinity Peninsula. It was so named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey because crystals were collected at the foot of the hill in 1945 and 1946.
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Hamer Hill Hamer Hill ( ) is a hill 505 m high on the eastern edge of the central mountain mass of Sobral Peninsula, Nordenskjöld Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Richard D. Hamer, a British Antarctic Survey geologist at Rothera Station, 1978–79 and 1980–81, who worked in the area.
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Dzyarzhynskaya Hara Dzyarzhynskaya Hara (Belarusian Дзяржынская гара "Dziaržynskaja hara", ] ) is the highest point in Belarus. The hill is 345 meters (1,130 ft) above sea level and is located west of Minsk, near Dzyarzhynsk, in the village Skirmuntava. The original name of the hill was Svyataya hara (Святая гара, “Holy mountain”). In 1958 the hill was renamed "Dzyarzhynskaya hara", after Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the NKVD/KGB.
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Cavanal Hill Cavanal Hill (officially Cavanal Mountain), located near Poteau, Oklahoma, is billed by a local chamber of commerce as the, "tallest hill in the world", because the elevation of its summit is 1999 ft . The actual summit elevation is 2385 ft above sea level; the difference in elevation between the summit and the Poteau River 3 mi to the north is 1960 ft .
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Llanmadoc Hill Llanmadoc Hill is a 186-metre-high hill at the northwestern corner of the Gower Peninsula west of Swansea in South Wales. The summit at the western end of the east-west aligned ridge is crowned by a trig point; at its eastern end are a series of complex earthworks known as The Bulwark. Numerous other prehistoric cairns adorn the hill’s broad summit ridge.