The Scott Mountains are a large number of isolated peaks lying south of

Amundsen Bay Amundsen Bay, also known as Ice Bay, is a long embayment wide, close west of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land, Antarctica. The bay was seen as a large pack-filled recession in the coastline by Sir Douglas Mawson on 14 January 1930. Seen by Capta ...

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. Discovered on 13 January 1930 by the

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(BANZARE) under Sir

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...

. He named the feature Scott Range 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 ...

, Royal Navy. The term mountains is considered more appropriate because of the isolation of its individual features.

List of mountains

* Mount Alekseyev () is a

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

, 927 m, standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) northeast of the McNaughton Ridges. Named by the

Soviet Antarctic Expedition The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the S ...

, 1961–62, for A.D. Alekseyev, Soviet polar pilot. * Mount Brockelsby () is a mountain, 1,290 m, standing 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Simpson Peak. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named by

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(ANCA) for W.K. Brockelsby, ionosphere physicist at

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in 1961. * Debenham Peak or Mount Debenham () is a

peak Peak or The Peak may refer to: Basic meanings Geology * Mountain peak ** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics * Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion * Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...

, 1,140 m, lying south of Amundsen Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) east of Mount Cronus. Discovered on 13 or 14 January 1930 by BANZARE, who named it for

Frank Debenham Frank Debenham, OBE (26 December 1883 – 23 November 1965) was Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Cambridge University and first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Biography Debenham was born in B ...

. The peak was more accurately positioned by ANARE (

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). History Australia has had a long involv ...

), 1954-58. * Mount George () is a mountain, 1,555 m, close west of Simpson Peak. Plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956 and 1957. The name was first applied by

John Biscoe John Biscoe (28 April 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica. The expedition also found a number of is ...

(1830–31), probably after one of the

Enderby Brothers Samuel Enderby & Sons was a whaling and sealing company based in London, England, founded circa 1775 by Samuel Enderby (1717–1797). The company was significant in the history of whaling in the United Kingdom, not least for encouraging their ...

, the owners of his vessel. As Biscoe's feature could not be identified among the many peaks in the area, the name was applied to this feature by ANCA in 1962. * Mount Giddings () is a mountain 6 nautical miles (11 km) southeast of Debenham Peak. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named by

(ANCA) after J.E. Giddings, cook at

in 1961. * McNaughton Ridges () is a group of ridges 12 nautical NE (22 km) of Simpson Peak. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956 and 1957. Named by ANCA for I.L.K. McNaughton, physicist at Mawson Station in 1961. * Oblachnaya Nunatak () is a

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

lying 6 nautical miles (11 km) southeast of Perov Nunataks, at the east margin of Scott Mountains. The geology of the nunatak was investigated by the

, 1961–62, which called it "Gora Oblachnaya" (cloudy mountain). * Perov Nunataks () is a small group of nunataks on the eastern edge of the Scott Mountains, 19 mi SE of Debenham Peak. Photographed in October 1956 by ANARE aircraft and surveyed in November 1958 by an airborne field party. Named by ANCA for Viktor Perov, pilot of a Soviet aircraft which flew over this area and rescued the 1958 Belgian field party after an aircraft accident. * Simpson Peak () is a

, 1,720 m, just east of Mount George in the southwest end of the Scott Mountains]. Discovered on 14 January 1930 by BANZARE under Mawson who named it for George Simpson (meteorologist), Sir George Simpson. The position of the feature was fixed by J.C. Armstrong of ANARE (

) in 1959. * Ward Rock () is a rounded rock exposure just east of the

Howard Hills The Howard Hills () are an area of low hills and meltwater lakes south of Beaver Glacier in the northeastern part of the Scott Mountains, Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were plotted from air photos taken from Australian National Antarctic Researc ...

in the northeast part of the Scott Mountains. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named by

(ANCA) for F.J. Ward, a member of the crew of Discovery during the

, 1929-31.

References

{{USGS Mountain ranges of Enderby Land

List of mountains

See also

References