 It was first seen from the air and named Mount Hope by Lincoln Ellsworth during his flights of November 21 and 23, 1935.This mountain is one of three major mountains in Ellsworth's Eternity Range to which he gave the names Faith, Hope, and Charity.The November of the following year the mountain was surveyed and given the name "Mount Wakefield" by J.R. Rymill of the British Graham Land Expedition.