Mount Scott (Antarctica)
| Mount Scott | ||
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 Mount Scott in February 2001 |
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| height | 880 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 9 ′ 9 ″ S , 64 ° 1 ′ 4 ″ W | |
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Mount Scott ( French Massif Scott ) is a 880 m high mountain on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . The horseshoe-shaped massif rises at the western end of the Kiev peninsula . The convex side borders Girard Bay while it opens to the southwest towards Penola Strait .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered the mountain. Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot roughly mapped it. Charcot named it after the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912). The mountain has been recorded on maps under its English name since 1930. The first aerial photographs were taken between 1956 and 1957 during the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1377 (English)