Mount Wrather
| Mount Wrather | ||
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| height | 2095 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 87 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Wrather is a 2095 m high, rocky mountain peak about four kilometers southeast of Mount Walcott at the eastern end of the Thiel Mountains .
Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford , who jointly led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1961 in the Thiel Mountains, named him after the American geologist William Embry Wrather (1883-1963), sixth director of the 1943 survey until 1956.
Web links
- Mount Wrather in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wrather on geographic.org (English)