Mount Weems

Mount Weems (77°27′S 86°10′W / 77.45°S 86.167°W / -77.45; -86.167) is a prominent mountain, 2,210 m, located 8 nautical miles (15 km) north of Mount Ulmer near the north end of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain P. V. H. Weems, U.S. Navy (Ret.), inventor and developer of air navigation instrumentation and techniques and consultant to Ellsworth on air navigation problems of this flight.

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