Mount Wharton

Mount Wharton
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height	2800 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	81 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 81 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Wharton is a 2800 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 9 km west of Turk Peak in the Churchill Mountains .

Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered the mountain and named it after William Wharton (1843-1905), a hydrograph and later admiral in the Royal Navy .

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