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List Of Peaks Named Mount Wilson
Several peaks are named Mount Wilson or similar: Antarctica * Mount Wilson (Antarctica) Australia * Wilsons Peak Wilsons Peak ( Aboriginal: ''Jirramen'') is a mountain on the border of New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Much of which is covered in rainforest. It marks the intersection of the Great Dividing Range with the McPherson Range in the ... Canada * Mount Wilson (Alberta) * Mount Wilson (British Columbia) * Mount Wilson (Yukon) United States {{mountainindex, Wilson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Wilson (Antarctica)
Mount Wilson is a mountain rising in the west part of the Bermel Peninsula on the Bowman Coast of Antarctica. This mountain appears indistinctly in a photograph taken by Sir Hubert Wilkins on his flight of December 20, 1928. The feature was rephotographed in 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth and in 1947 by RARE under Ronne. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948. Named by Ronne after Major General R. C. Wilson, chief of staff to Lt. General Curtis LeMay, head of the Office of Research and Development of the then Army Air Force The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ..., which furnished equipment for RARE. References * Mountains of Graham Land Bowman Coast {{BowmanCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilsons Peak
Wilsons Peak ( Aboriginal: ''Jirramen'') is a mountain on the border of New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Much of which is covered in rainforest. It marks the intersection of the Great Dividing Range with the McPherson Range in the Scenic Rim region. Local Aboriginals referred to the mountain as "Jirramen," which is Uragapul for knee. This is derived from the fact that the shape of the top of the mountain bears some resemblance to a human knee.Fassifern Centenary Book (1944) pI24; Thomas Hall, A Short History of the Downs Blacks, known as the Blucher tribe (Warwick, 1917) pp.39-40. The mountain was named by Captain Patrick Logan, the notoriously brutal commander of the Moreton Bay penal settlement, in honour of a colleague he served with at Moreton Bay. The local Aboriginal tribe used the peak to send a series of smoke signals along the Main Range. The other peaks used for the series of signals are: Mount Roberts, Doubletop, and Mount Mitchell. See also *Wilsons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |