Mount Ethelwulf

Mount Ethelwulf
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height	2590 m
location	Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica )
Mountains	Douglas Range
Coordinates	70 ° 1 '47 " S , 69 ° 35' 2" W Coordinates: 70 ° 1 '47 " S , 69 ° 35' 2" W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Ethelwulf is a 2590 m high and mostly icy mountain on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . In the Douglas Range, it rises at the head of the Tumble Glacier between the mountains of Mount Egbert and Mount Ethelred .

The mountain was first sighted probably during the transantarctic flight of the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935. The eastern flank was roughly measured in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a new survey in 1948 and in 1960 mapped the western flank of the mountain using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The mountain is named after Æthelwulf (800–858), King of Wessex from 839 to 858.

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