Mount Wyss

Mount Wyss
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height	1930 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 82 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Wyss is a 1930 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Frigate Range of the Queen Elizabeth Range, it rises 5 km east of Mount Rotoiti .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the biologist Orville Wyss (1912-1993), who was part of the United States Antarctic Research Program worked at McMurdo Station from 1962 to 1963 .

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