The Knoll
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 Map of Ross Island with The Knoll (right) |
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| height | 370 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Flank volcano | |
The Knoll (English for the hill or the hillock ) is a straight snowing, 370 m high hill that the Cape Crozier at the eastern end of the Antarctic Ross Island surmounted.
This flank volcano of Mount Terror was discovered and named descriptively during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . During Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), a three-man team built a makeshift refuge here in July 1911, which is listed under the number HSM 21 in the list of historical sites and monuments in the Antarctic .
Web links
- The Knoll in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Knoll on geographic.org (English)