Mount Wise (Antarctica)
| Mount Wise | ||
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| height | 815 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Wise is a 815 m high mountain of bare rock on the Scott coast of East Antarctica Victoria Land . It is the highest point on the Brown Peninsula .
The mountain is named after Keith Charles Wise, who explored the Brown Peninsula during a campaign of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition from 1958 to 1959 .
Web links
- Mount Wise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wise on geographic.org (English)