Mount Elliott (Antarctica)
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Mount Elliott () is a conspicuous mountain, high, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing northwest of
Cape Sobral Cape Sobral () is a high, mainly snow-covered elevation which surmounts the south end of Sobral Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It forms the east side of the entrance to Mundraga Bay and west side of the entrance to Larse ...
, northwest of
Mount Hypothesis Mount Hypothesis ( bg, връх Хипотеза, vrah Hipoteza,Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
p. 160 ) is the m ...
and northeast of
Rice Bastion Rice Bastion () is a substantial mountain mass surmounted by a small crown of exposed rock which appears slightly higher than the plateau behind it, projecting from the edge of Detroit Plateau, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. Situated between ...
, on the
Nordenskjöld Coast The Nordenskjöld Coast (64° 30' S 60° 30' W) is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, more specifically Graham Land, which is the top region of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is a thin, long ice sheet with an Alpine-style mountain chain. The coast ...
of
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. The peak surmounts
Dinsmoor Glacier Dinsmoor Glacier () is a glacier in the Nordenskjöld Coast of Antarctica, named for inventor Charles Dinsmoor. It flows east from the Detroit Plateau, and merges with the Edgeworth Glacier near Mount Elliott before draining into Mundraga Bay. ...
to the north,
Mundraga Bay Mundraga Bay ( bg, залив Мундрага, zaliv Mundraga, ) is the 28.6 km wide bay indenting for 23 km Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is entered east of Fothergill Point and west of Cape Sobral. Local coastli ...
to the southeast, and
Desudava Glacier Desudava Glacier () is the long and wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica situated south of Dinsmoor Glacier and east-northeast of Boryana Glacier. Location Desudava Glacier is on the Nordenskjöld Coast of the Antar ...
to the southwest. It was charted in 1947 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
(FIDS) and named for F. K. Elliott, the leader of the FIDS base at
Hope Bay Hope Bay (Spanish: ''Bahía Esperanza'') on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound. It is the site of the Argentinian Antarctic settlement Esperanza Base, established i ...
in 1947 and 1948.


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SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Mountains of Graham Land Nordenskjöld Coast {{NordenskjöldCoast-geo-stub