Mount Wood (Palmerland)
| Mount Wood | ||
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| height | 1230 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 50 '32 " S , 64 ° 8' 17" W | |
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Mount Wood is a 1230 m high mountain on the Orville coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises west of Gardner Inlet and 15 miles west of Mount Austin .
Participants of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) discovered him. The expedition leader Finn Ronne named the mountain after Ernest Albert Wood Jr. (1924-1999), machinist on the ship Port of Beaumont, Texas on this research trip .
Web links
- Mount Wood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wood on geographic.org (English)