Mount Wilcox () is a
mountain with a sharp, rocky, triangular
peak surmounting the southeast corner of
Square Bay Square Bay is a bay, roughly square in outline and 10 nautical miles (18 km) wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Nicholl Head and Camp Point. Most of the entrance to the bay is occupied by Horseshoe Island, which limits acc ...
, east of
Camp Point on the west coast of
Graham Land,
Antarctica. The mountain was apparently first seen and roughly charted in 1909 by the
French Antarctic Expedition under
Charcot. It was surveyed in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under
John Rymill and was photographed from the air in 1940 by the
United States Antarctic Service (USAS). The name, proposed by Colonel Lawrence Martin, is for Phineas Wilcox, mate on the ''Hero'', in which Captain
Nathaniel Palmer explored the Antarctic mainland south of
Deception Island in 1820.
References
Mountains of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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