Wooden Peak
| Wooden Peak | ||
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| height | 900 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 7 '54 " S , 65 ° 34' 42" W | |
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The Wooden Peak is a turn 900 m high mountain at the Graham Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the south shore of Holtedahl Bay, it rises 3 km southeast of Black Head .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Frederick Edward Wooden (* 1923) of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who carried out surveys on Danco Island in 1956 and Prospect Point in 1957 and on work by the Royal Navy hydrographic unit in this area between 1957 and was involved in 1958.
Web links
- Wooden Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wooden Peak on geographic.org (English)