Wilcox, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Wilcox (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to 1405m on S side of Square Bay, Fallières Coast, was surveyed by BGLE in 1936 (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432) and photographed from the air by USAS in 1940; named after Phineas Wilcox, Mate in the American shallop Hero (Hero Bay, q.v.), 1820-21 (Martin, 1940, p.539 and map p.542; USHO, 1943, p.159; [in 67°58'S 66°55'W, in confusion with Mount Metcalfe, q.v.] APC, 1955, p.22; [coordinates corrected] BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; APC, 1974, p.7; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978); resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1948.
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