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Encyclopedia > Mount Scott
Mount Scott
Elevation: 880 metres (2,887 feet)
Coordinates: 65°09′S 064°03′W
Location: Graham Land, Antarctica
Range:
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Mount Scott is a horseshoe-shaped massif, open to the SW with its convex side fronting on Girard Bay and its NW side on Lemaire Channel, on the west coast of Graham Land. Download high resolution version (550x682, 97 KB)Photo of Mount Scott in Antarctica, taken February 2001 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Map of Antarctica Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. ... The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ... In the north entry of Lemaire Channel looking south, from the deck of the Hanseatic. ... Map of Antarctica Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. ...


Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99. Mapped by Dr. Jean B. Charcot, leader of the FrAE, 1908-10, and named for Captain Robert F. Scott. Captain Sir Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a British Naval officer and Antarctic explorer. ...


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Mount Scott gives bird’s-eye view of Crater Lake - September 3, 2004 (495 words)
At 8,928 feet, Mount Scott is Oregon’s tenth-highest summit, but it gets relatively little notice perched up against the 7,000-foot rim of Crater Lake.
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Mount Scott is probably the most well known peak in Oklahoma next to the high point of Black Mesa.
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