Mount Schuyler is the peak rising to 1435 m off the northeast extremity of Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Surmounting Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier is a glacier, 11 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula westward into Bone Bay on the north side of Trinity Peninsula...

 to the north and Victory Glacier

Victory Glacier

Victory Glacier is a gently sloping glacier, 8 nautical miles long, flowing east-southeast from the north end of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula to Prince Gustav Channel immediately north of Pitt Point. Bounded by Trakiya Heights to the north and Kondofrey Heights to the south...

 to the southeast. Part of the glacial divide between Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast-southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula. It was named in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, for Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who charted the South Shetland...

 and Prince Gustav Channel

Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

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The peak is named after the American diplomat Eugene Schuyler

Eugene Schuyler

Eugene Schuyler was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi...

 (1840-1890) who investigated the crushing of the Bulgarian April Uprising

April Uprising

The April Uprising was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876, which indirectly resulted in the re-establishment of Bulgaria as an autonomous nation in 1878...

 of 1876 and co-authored the draft decisions of the subsequent 1876 Constantinople Conference

Constantinople Conference

The 1876–1877 Constantinople Conference of the Great Powers was held in Constantinople from 23 December 1876 until 20 January 1877...

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Location

Mount Schuyler is located at 63°44′14"S 58°41′05"W, which is 2.28 km south-southwest of Sirius Knoll

Sirius Knoll

Sirius Knoll is a conspicuous ice-covered knoll, 1,010 m, marking the northeast end of Detroit Plateau in the central part of Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named after Sirius, the dog star.-Map:...

, 4.45 km west of Antonov Peak

Antonov Peak

Antonov Peak is the peak rising to over 1300 m in the northwest part of Trakiya Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 4.45 km east of Mount Schuyler, 4.25 km southeast of Sirius Knoll, 4.9 km west by north of Mount Daimler, and 8.23 km north of Skakavitsa Peak in Kondofrey...

 and 9.35 km west by north of Mount Daimler

Mount Daimler

Mount Daimler is one of the highest points of the rock massif of Trakiya Heights between Russell East Glacier and Victory Glacier, 3 nautical miles south of Mount Canicula, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

 in Trakiya Heights

Trakiya Heights

Trakiya Heights are the heights rising to 1336 m on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Russell West Glacier to the north, Srem Gap and Russell East Glacier to the northeast, Victory Glacier to the southwest and Zlidol Gate to the northwest. Surmounting Prince Gustav Channel,...

, 12.75 km north-northwest of Mount Reece

Mount Reece

Mount Reece is a sharp, ice-free peak, 1,085 m, standing 4 nautical miles west of Pitt Point. It is the second highest point of Kondofrey Heights forming the south wall of Victory Glacier on the south side of Trinity Peninsula...

 in Kondofrey Heights

Kondofrey Heights

Kondofrey Heights are the heights rising to 1119 m on the southeast side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Detroit Plateau, south of Victory Glacier and west of Prince Gustav Channel, Weddell Sea. Linked to Detroit Plateau by Podgumer Col...

 and 12.06 km east by south of Tinsel Dome

Tinsel Dome

Tinsel Dome is a small ice-covered hill, 700 m, standing between Aureole Hills and Bone Bay on Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who gave this descriptive name.-Map:...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.