Mount Scott
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- This article is about the mountain in Antarctica. For the peak in southwestern Oklahoma, see Wichita Mountains.
Mount Scott | |
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Elevation: | 880 metres (2,887 feet) |
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Location: | Graham Land, Antarctica |
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Mount Scott is a horseshoe-shaped massif, open to the SW with its convex side fronting on Girard Bay and its NW side on Lemaire Channel, on the west coast of Graham Land.
Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99. Mapped by Dr. Jean B. Charcot, leader of the FrAE, 1908-10, and named for Captain Robert F. Scott.