Mount Woodward () is a
mountain
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, 770 m, standing 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the mouth of
Antarctic Bay
Antarctic Bay is a bay wide which recedes southwest , entered between Antarctic Point and Morse Point on the north coast of South Georgia. It was probably first sighted by a British expedition under James Cook in 1775, and was explored in 1902 ...
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
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(UK-APC) for
Roswall Woodward, of
New Haven
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,
Connecticut
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, who in 1790 commanded one of the first two American sealing vessels to visit South Georgia. Nearby
Antarctic Bay
Antarctic Bay is a bay wide which recedes southwest , entered between Antarctic Point and Morse Point on the north coast of South Georgia. It was probably first sighted by a British expedition under James Cook in 1775, and was explored in 1902 ...
was at one time known as "Woodward Harbour", but this name did not survive.
Woodward
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