Mount Nares

Mount Nares
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height	3000 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	81 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 81 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Nares is a massive mountain over 3000 m high in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It towers south of Mount Albert Markham over the origin of the Flynn Glacier in the Churchill Mountains .

Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered the mountain and named it after George Nares (1831-1915), leader of the British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876) and Admiral of the Royal Navy who was a member of the Discovery Expedition Research Vessel Equipment Committee.

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