Mount Robert Scott

Mount Robert Scott
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height	1000  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Robert Scott is a small, flat and snow-capped mountain with an altitude of 1000  m in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises immediately south of the Ebony Ridge in the Commonwealth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), Shackleton's compatriot and competitor in the competition to reach the geographic South Pole for the first time.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Robert Scott in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Robert Scott on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Robert Scott. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 260 (English)