Mount Baxter (Antarctica)
Mount Baxter | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,430 m (7,970 ft)[1] |
Coordinates | 74°22′S 162°32′E / 74.367°S 162.533°E |
Geography | |
Location | Victoria Land, Antarctica |
Parent range | Eisenhower Range |
Mount Baxter is a large buttress-type mountain, located just south of O'Kane Canyon where it forms a rounded projection of the east escarpment of the Eisenhower Range, in Victoria Land, Antarctica.[2]
Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) under Scott, who named it for Sir George and Lady Baxter of Dundee, supporters of the expedition.[1]
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