Mount Lupa () is a flat-topped, ice-covered
mountain
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, over high, standing between
Romulus Glacier and
Martin Glacier close east-southeast of
Black Thumb and east of the head of
Rymill Bay
Rymill Bay () is a bay in Antarctica. It is wide at its mouth and indents between Red Rock Ridge and Bertrand Ice Piedmont along the west coast of Graham Land. Rymill Bay was probably first seen from a distance by the French Antarctic Expedition ...
, on the west coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
, Antarctica. It was first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition under
John Rymill
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. It was resurveyed in 1948–49 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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who applied the name. This mountain lies near the heads of Romulus and
Remus Glaciers, and the name derives from the mythological story of the she-wolf (Lupa) which fed the twins
Romulus and Remus
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after they had been thrown into the Tiber.
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References
Mountains of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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