Mount Scott is a horseshoe-shaped massif on

Kyiv Peninsula Kyiv Peninsula (, ) is the predominantly ice-covered, oval shaped peninsula projecting 35 km in northwest direction from the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Flandres Bay to the northeast and Beascochea Bay to t ...

, the west 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 ...

, which is open to the southwest with its convex side fronting on Girard Bay and its northwestern side on Lemaire Channel. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99. Mapped by Dr.

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Ba ...

, leader of the fourth French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and named for

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Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Duseberg Buttress stands at the southwest side of Mount Scott.

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SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Mountains of Graham Land Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub