Finger Mountain

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Finger Mountain
height 1920  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 160 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E
Finger Mountain (Antarctica)
Finger Mountain

The Finger Mountain is a 1920  m high and elongated mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains it rises on the north side of the Turnabout Valley .

Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named it after a finger-shaped dolerite vein that the mountain has between layers of sandstone .

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