Mount England

Mount England
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height	1205 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount England is a 1205 m high mountain towered over by a rock cone on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises just south of New Glacier in the northeastern part of the Gonville and Caius Range .

Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. Scott named the mountain after Rupert England (1878-1942), officer on board the Morning for the liberation of the expedition members and later captain of the Nimrod in the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .

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