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Round Hill, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 500
Housing Units (2000): 177
Land area (2000): 0.214242 sq. miles (0.554883 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.214242 sq. miles (0.554883 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69168
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 39.133625 N, 77.770217 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 22141
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Round Hill (Dartmouth, Massachusetts)

Round Hill is a location in Dartmouth, Massachusetts of historical significance.

Round Hill

There are several places named Round Hill:

Round Hill (Heard Island)

Round Hill is an ice-free, rounded hill (380 m) rising southward of Fairchild Beach and between Compton Glacier and Brown Glacier, on the northeast side of Heard Island. Travelling westwards from the sandy Fairchild Beach at the base of Round Hill, one arrives at the rocky Gilchrist Beach.

The feature is roughly mapped on the 1874 chart by the Challenger expedition. It was surveyed and given this descriptive name by ANARE ( Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) in 1948.

Category:Hills of Antarctica

Usage examples of "round hill".

A glance showed him that he was now facing southwards and was on a round hill-top, which he must have climbed from the north.

All over Isidis these giant new holes and hummocks were blistering the landscape, and after her talk and a sequence of mind-boggling slides, the areologist led a large group of interested scientists to the south end of Burroughs, past Moeris Lacus Mesa to the tent wall, where the neighborhood looked like it had been devastated by earthquake, the ground having heaved up to reveal a rising mass of ice like a bald round hill.

Chocks were placed on the hill and then Father Kulcyanov, who was looking mighty worn, carefully had the poplar logs laid perpendicular to the slope at a particular point on the side of the nearly round hill.

On a round hill between spires of rock flourished the wild garden of Saara: a meadow of heavy grass, cut by interlacing streams, dotted with the early blue aster, and wound about with the sprawling late red rose.

It was a round hill smooth and bare, standing by itself, the most northerly of the downs.

The boy waved him back with a stick, then motioned toward a jumbly dark rise ahead of them, an unnaturally round hill crowned with fallen stones and unpleasantly torn up trees.