Mount Woodward
Mount Woodward is a mountain, 770 m, standing 1.5 miles east of the mouth of Antarctic Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Roswall Woodward, of New Haven, Connecticut, who in 1790 commanded one of the first two American sealing vessels to visit South Georgia.- Peak rising to 773 metres (2,536 feet)
- Description: mountain in South Georgia
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- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.09707° or 54° 5′ 49″ south
Longitude
-36.89625° or 36° 53′ 47″ west
Open location code
39Q5W433+5F
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Mount Woodward” goes by many names.
伍德沃山Chinese
Mount WoodwardDutch
Mount WoodwardLadin
Mount WoodwardNorwegian Nynorsk
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