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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.
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Map of Wild Knoll, Antarctica
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, 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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Wild Knoll Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA