Mount Woodward (South Georgia)

Mount Woodward
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height	773  m
location	South Georgia
Coordinates	54 ° 5 '45 "  S , 36 ° 53' 54"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '45 "  S , 36 ° 53' 54"  W.

Mount Woodward is a 773  m high mountain on the north coast of South Georgia, according to the UK Antarctic Place Names Committee . It rises 25 km east of the entrance to Antarctic Bay .

Scientists from the South Georgia Survey mapped it from the survey campaign of South Georgia between 1951 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after Roswall Woodward of New Haven , Connecticut , who was the captain of the first US sealer in the waters around South Georgia in 1790.

Web links

• Mount Woodward in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Woodward on geographic.org (English)