Countrylist Antarctica Marie Byrd Land de en

Wyatt Hill

Location Type:hill
Position:74°32′00″S, 110°27′00″W
A small ice-covered hill rising to c. 500 m at the W side of Hamilton Ice Piedmont, Bear Peninsula, on the Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USGS from USN aerial photographs taken in 1966. Named by US-ACAN after Joseph T. Wyatt, electrical engineer, Lockheed-Georgia Company, a member of the aircraft recovery team at Dome Charlie (q.v.) in 1975-76 and 1976-77, which accomplished the repair and recovery of three LC-130 Hercules aircraft damaged there during January and November 1975.
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