Mount Scott (Antarctica)

For other uses, see Mount Scott (disambiguation).

Mount Scott
Mount Scott, February 2001
Elevation	880 m (2,887 ft) [1]
Prominence	880 m (2,887 ft)
Location
Location	Graham Land, Antarctica
Coordinates	65°09′S 064°03′W / 65.15°S 64.05°W / -65.15; -64.05[1]

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]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Mount Scott". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:13444. Retrieved 2005-01-26. 

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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