Cape Scott

Cape Scott

Cape Scott (coord|71|07|S|168|05|E|) is a cape at the western side of the terminus of Dennistoun Glacier on the northern coast of Victoria Land in Antarctica. Discovered by Captain James Ross, 1841, who named it for Peter A. Scott, Mate on the "Terror".


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