Mount Wright

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Mount Wright
height 1800  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 169 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 169 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Wright (Antarctica)
Mount Wright

Mount Wright is a 1800  m high mountain not far from the Pennell coast in East Antarctica Victoria Land . In the northern part of the Admiralty Mountains, it rises 13 km southwest of Birthday Point between the Shipley and Crume glaciers .

Participants of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named him after the Canadian physicist Charles Seymour Wright (1887-1975), who was involved in this research trip.

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