Mount Scott (Antarctica)

For other uses, see Mount Scott (disambiguation).
Mount Scott

Mount Scott, February 2001
Highest point
Elevation 880 m (2,890 ft)[1]
Prominence 880 m (2,890 ft)
Coordinates 65°09′S 064°03′W / 65.150°S 64.050°W / -65.150; -64.050[1]
Geography
Location Graham Land, Antarctica
Location of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Mount Scott is a horseshoe-shaped massif on Kiev Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land, which is open to the southwest with its convex side fronting on Girard Bay and its northwestern side on Lemaire Channel.

Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99. Mapped by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, leader of the fourth French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and named for Captain Robert Falcon Scott.[1]

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