Scott Nunatakker
| Scott Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Alexandra Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 14 ′ S , 154 ° 12 ′ W | |
The Scott Nunatakker are a distinctive twin nunatak in Marie-Byrd Land in West Antarctica . They are located at the northern end of the Alexandra Mountains on the Edward VII Peninsula .
Participants in the British Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) discovered them in 1902. Kristian Prestrud , head of the team in the South Pole Expedition ( 1910-1912) of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen , who explored the Edward VII Peninsula, named them after Amundsens Rival Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), leader of the Discovery Expedition, who was defeated on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) in competition with Amundsen to reach the geographic South Pole for the first time and died on the way back with four companions came.
Web links
- Scott Nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scott Nunataks on geographic.org (English)