Mount Blunt () is a rounded ice-covered

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(1,500 m) rising from the west flank of

Weyerhaeuser Glacier Weyerhaeuser Glacier () is a large glacier flowing north into Mercator Ice Piedmont close west of Mobiloil Inlet, on the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. This glacier lies in the area first explored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 an ...

, on the east side of

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. Based on peakery data, it ranks as the 1697th highest mountain in

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.Mount Blunt - Antarctica • peakery
The mountain was photographed from the air by the

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(USAS) on September 28, 1940. It was roughly surveyed by

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(FIDS) in December 1958, and resurveyed in November 1960. It was named by the

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(UK-APC) after Edmund Blunt (1770–1862), American publisher of charts and sailing directions, whose establishment was acquired by U.S. Government to form the nucleus of the U.S. Hydrographic Office (since 1972, the

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Mountains of Graham Land Bowman Coast {{BowmanCoast-geo-stub

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