Mount Wyatt
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Mount Wyatt is a prominent flat-topped mountain
Mountain
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, 2,930 m, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Mount Verlautz
Mount Verlautz
Mount Verlautz is a mountain standing just north of the mouth of Poulter Glacier in the southeast end of the Rawson Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Major Sidney J. Verlautz, U.S. Army Transportation Corps, who served as logistics...

 in the Rawson Mountains
Rawson Mountains (Antarctica)
The Rawson Mountains lie within the Queen Maud Mountains to the southeast of the Ross Ice Shelf. They stand between the head of the Amundsen and Scott Glaciers. Peaks within the range include Mount Wyatt and Mount Weaver ....

 of the Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...

. Discovered in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn and named by Rear Admiral Byrd for Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt
Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the television comedy Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek...

, a friend of Richard S. Russell, Jr., a member of that party.
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