Mount Wade

Mount Wade
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height	4085 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 84 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Wade is a massive, 4085 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . As a landmark from the Ross Ice Shelf or the Shackleton Glacier, it rises in the immediate vicinity of Mount Fisher and 6.5 km northwest of Mount Campbell in the Prince Olav Mountains .

The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him on his flight over the Queen Maud Mountains in November 1929. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1947 after the geologist Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), participant in Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) and senior scientist with the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), who also led several ventures within the United States Antarctic Research Program in the 1960s .

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