Wright, Mount
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,146 metres
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Mount Wright”
Wright, Mount
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.55° or 71° 33′ southLongitude
169.16667° or 169° 10′ eastElevation
1,146 metres (3,760 feet)Named after
C. S. WrightOpen location code
2VWFF528+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 11109079503OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6628299Wikidata ID
Q6924672
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Satellite Map
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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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