Wright, Mount

Robertson Bay is a large, roughly triangular bay that indents the north coast of between Cape Barrow and . Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for Dr. John Robertson, surgeon on .
Wikipedia
  • Peak rising to 1,146 metres (3,760 feet)
  • …is also known as “Mount Wright”
  • …is named after C. S. Wright
  • Description: mountain in Antarctica

Wright, Mount

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Latitude
-71.55° or 71° 33′ south
Longitude
169.16667° or 169° 10′ east
Open location code
2VWFF528+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11109079503
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6628299
Wiki­data ID
Q6924672

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Venetian—“Wright, Mount” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Wright”
  • Chinese: “賴特山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Wright”
  • German: “Mount Wright”
  • Italian: “Monte Wright”
  • Ladin: “Mount Wright”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Wright”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Wright”
  • Swedish: “Mount Wright”
  • Swedish: “Wright”
  • Venetian: “Monte Wright”

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