Mount Abbott () is a
mountain
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high, which stands northeast of
Cape Canwe and is the highest point in the
Northern Foothills
Northern Foothills () is a line of coastal hills on the west side of Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica, lying southward of Browning Pass and forming a peninsular continuation of the Deep Freeze Range. It was named by the Northern Party o ...
, in
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...
, Antarctica. It overlooks
Terra Nova Bay
Terra Nova Bay is a bay which is often ice free, about long, lying between Cape Washington and the Drygalski Ice Tongue along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (known as the ...
. It was mapped by the Northern Party of the
British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–1913, and named after
Petty Officer
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George P. Abbott,
Royal Navy
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, a member of the expedition.
The mountain is a
basanitic cinder cone of the Melbourne Volcanic Province of the
McMurdo Volcanic Group. It has been dated to 0.628 ± 0.015 million years old.
See also
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List of mountains in Antarctica
This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Antarctica. Some islands in the South Atlantic have also been included and can be found at the end of the list.
Antarctica
South Atl ...
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List of volcanoes in Antarctica
This is a list of volcanoes in Antarctica.
Table
A 2017 study claimed to have found 138 volcanoes, of which 91 were previously unknown. Some volcanoes are entirely under the ice sheet. Unconfirmed volcanoes are not included in the table below.
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References
Volcanoes of Victoria Land
Scott Coast
Cinder cones
Pleistocene volcanoes
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