Mount Wilbur
| Mount Wilbur | ||
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| height | 2743 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 152 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Wilbur is a 2743 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises about 3 km east of Mount Weaver in the area where the Scott Glacier was formed.
It was discovered in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named the mountain after Curtis D. Wilbur (1880-1958), Secretary of the Navy in the cabinet of US President Calvin Coolidge between 1925 and 1929.
Web links
- Mount Wilbur in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wilbur on geographic.org (English)