Mount Wilcox

Mount Wilcox
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height	1405 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	67 ° 56 '56 " S , 66 ° 55' 58" W Coordinates: 67 ° 56 '56 " S , 66 ° 55' 58" W

Mount Wilcox is an approximately 1,405 m high mountain with a pointed, three-sided rock summit on the Fallières coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises eight miles east of Camp Point on the southeastern bank of Square Bay .

The first sighting probably goes back to participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot in 1909. Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , took measurements in 1936. Aerial photographs were taken in 1940 by scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). It was named in 1940 at the suggestion of the US geographer Lawrence Martin (1880–1955), one of the founding fathers of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names . It is named after Phineas Wilcox (1792–1839), mate on board the Hero under Captain Nathaniel Palmer , who had sighted the Antarctic mainland on November 17, 1820 while exploring south of Deception Island .

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