Mount Walker () is a snow-covered
mountain
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which rises from the northeast part of
Forbidden Plateau
The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly plateau in the east of the Vancouver Island Ranges in British Columbia, northwest of Comox Lake roughly between Mount Albert Edward to the southwest and Mount Washington to the northeast.
Geography
The ...
, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the head of
Blanchard Glacier
Wilhelmina Bay () is a bay wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Location
Wilhelmina Bay is on the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It indents ...
, in northern
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
, Antarctica. It was surveyed by
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
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(FIDS) in 1955. Named by
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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(UK-APC) for Richard Walker of the
Discovery Investigations
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,
First Officer on ''
RRS Discovery II
RRS ''Discovery II'' was a British Royal Research Ship which, during her operational lifetime of about 30 years, carried out considerable hydrographical and marine biological survey work in Antarctic waters and the Southern Ocean in the cours ...
'', 1933–37.
Mountains of Graham Land
Danco Coast
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