Mount Wheat

Mount Wheat
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height	1100 m
location	Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago
Mountains	Wall Range
Coordinates	64 ° 49 '42 " S , 63 ° 22' 36" W Coordinates: 64 ° 49 '42 " S , 63 ° 22' 36" W

Mount Wheat is a 1,100 m high and striking mountain in the center of Wiencke Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is the highest point in the Wall Range and rises immediately north of Thunder Glacier .

The first sighting probably goes back to participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery in 1898. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) named him after Lieutenant Commander Luther William Wheat of the United States Navy , helicopter commander of the flight squadron for Operation Deep Freeze between 1975 and 1978, and flight manager in the National Science Foundation's division for polar programs in 1978 and member of US ACAN from 1979 to 1988.

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