Mount Woollard
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Mount Woollard () is a mountain (2,675 m) nearly 240 km (150 mi) west of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, in Antarctica. It was discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party (1957-58), and named for George P. Woollard, member of the Technical Panel on Seismology and Gravity, U.S. National Committee for the IGY, trainer of numerous Antarctic geophysicists.
Mount Woollard is an isolated mountain, with only Mount Moore () 8 miles to the north. Mount Moore rises 305 m above the snow surface. It was also discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party, on February 4, 1958, and named after Lt. John P. Moore, USNR (1928-55), a helicopter pilot aboard the USS Atka, who perished in a helicopter crash near Kainan Bay in January 1955.
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