Kyle Hills () is a prominent group of volcanic cones, hills, ridges, and peaks that occupy the east part of Ross Island between Mount Terror and Cape Crozier. The hills extend east-west for 8 nautical miles (15 km), rising from sea level at Cape Crozier to c.2600 m in Mount McIntosh at the west end of the group. Local relief of features is on the order of 200 m. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2000) after Philip R. Kyle, Professor of Geochemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, who worked extensively in Antarctica over 28 field seasons, 1969–2000; completed six seasons under New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) auspices, 1969–76; principal investigator on numerous National Science Foundation (NSF) research projects in 23 seasons of field work under United States Antarctic Program (USAP) auspices, 1977–2000, with focus on long-term research of the volcano Mount Erebus; in charge of the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory, 2000.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Kyle Hills" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).