Mount Wright () is a
peak over 1,800 m in the north part of the
Admiralty Mountains,
Victoria Land,
Antarctica. It rises between
Shipley Glacier
Shipley Glacier () is a glacier, 25 miles (40 km) long, in the north-central Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. The glacier drains the northern slopes of Mount Adam and flows along the east wall of DuBridge Range to Pressure Bay on the north ...
and
Crume Glacier
Robertson Bay is a large, roughly triangular bay that indents the north coast of Victoria Land between Cape Barrow and Cape Adare. Discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for Dr. John Robertson, Surgeon on HMS ...
, 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of
Birthday Point Birthday Point is a bold, rocky headland which separates Pressure Bay and Berg Bay on the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature was charted and named by the Northern Party, led by Victor Campbell (Royal Navy officer), V ...
. The feature was named by the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, after
Charles S. Wright
Sir Charles Seymour Wright (7 April 1887 – 1 November 1975), nicknamed Silas Wright after novelist Silas K. Hocking, was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition of 1910–1913, the ''Terra Nova'' Expedition.
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(1887–1975), physicist with the expedition.
Mountains of Victoria Land
Pennell Coast
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