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Mount Flora (63°25′S 57°1′W / 63.417°S 57.017°W) is a mountain, 520 m, containing a well-defined cirque which faces northeast, standing 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southeast of the head of Hope Bay, at the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold, 1901–04, and named by J. Gunnar Andersson, second-in-command of the expedition who discovered flora fossils of the Jurassic period in certain strata of this mountain.
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