Wakefield Highland
The Wakefield Highland is a snow-covered highland in the central region of the Antarctic Peninsula, part of the British Antarctic Territory.
The highland is within Palmer Land, bounded to the north by the Hermes Glacier and the heads of the Weyerhaeuser Glacier and the Aphrodite Glacier, to the west by the heads of Airy Glacier, Rotz Glacier and Seller Glacier, to the south by Fleming Glacier and to the east by the heads of Lurabee Glacier, Sunfix Glacier and Grimley Glacier.
The land was photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition on 22 December 1947 and surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in November 1960.
The Wakefield Highland is named after Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, a contributor to British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37. The British Graham Land Expedition originally named a mountain of the Eternity Range after Viscount Wakefield in 1934 but later surveys revealed that this was the same mountain which Lincoln Ellesworthy had spotted from the air the previous year and named 'Mount Hope', and so 'Mount Hope was accepted for the latter mountain (which is the highest mountain in the British Antarctic Territory. Wakefield's name was transferred to the land to the south which now bears it. The name was concurred in by the respective British and American bodies for nomenclature; the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee]] and the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (of the United States).
