Mount Scott is located on the border of
Alberta
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and
British Columbia
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, North of the Hooker Icefield in
Hamber Provincial Park
Hamber Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 130 kilometres (80.7 mi) north of Golden. Straddling the Great Divide on the provincial boundary with Alberta, the park is surrounded on three sides by Jasper ...
.
It is Alberta's 44th highest peak, and Alberta's 46th most prominence mountain. It is also British Columbia's 57th highest peak. It was named in 1913 after Captain
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ...
.
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See also
* List of peaks on the British Columbia–Alberta border
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* List of mountains in the Canadian Rockies
A list of highest peaks in the Canadian Rockies is shown below:
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Canadian Rockies
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Three-thousanders of Alberta
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