Wakefield Highland

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Wakefield Highland
location Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Wakefield Highland (Antarctic Peninsula)
Wakefield Highland
Coordinates 69 ° 17 ′  S , 65 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 69 ° 17 ′  S , 65 ° 11 ′  W
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The Wakefield Highland is a snowy highland in the center of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is formed in the north by the Hermes Glacier and the head ends of the Weyerhaeuser and Aphrodite Glaciers , in the west by the head ends of the Airy , Snot and Seller glaciers , in the south by the Fleming Glacier and in the east bounded by the headboards of the Lurabee , Sunfix and Grimley glaciers .

Participants in the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) photographed it from the air on December 22, 1947. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey in 1960. It is named after Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield (1859–1941), Lord Mayor of London and sponsor of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The naming background is the name transfer made by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee and the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names of Mount Wakefield (now Mount Hope ) originally named by Rymill in the nearby Eternity Range .

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