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Mount Discovery
Mt. Discovery seen from Pegasus Field, January 2013
Highest point
Elevation2,681 m (8,796 ft)
Prominence1,637 m (5,371 ft)[1]
ListingUltra
Coordinates78°22′S 165°01′E / 78.367°S 165.017°E / -78.367; 165.017 (Mount Discovery)[1]
Geography
Mount Discovery is located in Antarctica
Mount Discovery
Mount Discovery
Antarctica
Geology
Age of rockPliocene-to-Pleistocene[2]
Mountain typeStratovolcano
Volcanic beltMcMurdo Volcanic Group
Last eruption1.87 million years ago[2]

Mount Discovery (78°22′S 165°01′E / 78.367°S 165.017°E / -78.367; 165.017 (Mount Discovery)) is a conspicuous, isolated volcanic cone, 2,680 metres (8,790 ft) high, lying at the head of McMurdo Sound and east of Koettlitz Glacier, overlooking the northwest portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. It forms the center of a three-armed mass of which Brown Peninsula is one extension to the north; Minna Bluff is a second to the east; the third is Mount Morning to the west. Mount Discovery was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for their expedition ship Discovery.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Antarctica Ultra-Prominences" Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2012-09-05.
  2. ^ a b "Mount Discovery". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  3. ^ Alberts 1995, p. 190.

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