Wild Knoll

Location of Bastien Range in Western Antarctica.
Map of Sentinel Range and Bastien Range.

Wild Knoll (Bulgarian: могила Уайлд, ‘Mogila Wild’ \'vr&h u-'ayld\) is the peak rising to 2370 m in the central portion of Bastien Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. The feature has steep and partly ice-free west slopes, and surmounts upper Minnesota Glacier to the south-southwest.

The peak is named after the Swiss natural history illustrator John James (Jean Jacques) Wild (1824-1900), a member of the British 1872-76 Challenger Expedition who took the first photographs in the Antarctic region in 1874.

Location

Wild Knoll is located at 78°46′04.2″S 86°29′12.8″W / 78.767833°S 86.486889°WCoordinates: 78°46′04.2″S 86°29′12.8″W / 78.767833°S 86.486889°W, which is 12.76 km southwest of Mount Klayn, 12 km west-southwest of Mount Fisek and 13.65 km northwest of Patmos Peak. US mapping in 1961 and 1988.

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References

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.