Mount Baxter is a large buttress-type

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, located just south of O'Kane Canyon where it forms a rounded projection of the east escarpment of the Eisenhower Range, 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 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

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. Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Scott, who named it for Sir George and Lady Baxter of

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, supporters of the expedition.

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