Mount Scott (Antarctica)
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Mount Scott, February 2001 |
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Elevation | 880 metres (2,887 ft) |
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-Baptiste Charcot, leader of the fourth French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, and named for Captain Robert Falcon Scott.