Mount Wilson (Antarctica)

Mount Wilson
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height	1300 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	68 ° 27 '36 " S , 65 ° 32' 51" W Coordinates: 68 ° 27 '36 " S , 65 ° 32' 51" W

Mount Wilson is a 1,300 m high mountain on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises to the west of the Bermel Peninsula .

The mountain can be seen for the first time in an aerial photo taken by the Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins on his Antarctic flight on December 20, 1928. Further aerial photographs were taken during overflights by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) in 1940 and during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) in 1947. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey conducted a geodetic survey of the mountain in 1948 . The US polar explorer Finn Ronne named him after Major General Roscoe Charles Wilson (1905-1986), chief of staff under Lieutenant General Curtis E. LeMay in the research and development department of the United States Army Air Forces , which equipped the Ronne expedition with equipment.

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