Touchdown Hills (78°7′S 35°0′W / 78.117°S 35.000°W) is a group of snow-covered hills extending south from Vahsel Bay on the east side of the Filchner Ice Shelf. So named by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1957 because one of the expedition members, while piloting a plane fitted with skis, mistook these hills for clouds and hit them, bounding upwards undamaged.
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