Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Flora, monte (ARG) | 63° 25' 00.0" S | 57° 03' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 100905 Place ID: 4744 | |||
| Flora, Monte (CHL) | 63° 25' 00.0" S | 57° 01' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 105558
Place ID: 4744
Descubierto por la Expedición Antártica Sueca, 1901-1904, al mando de Otto Nordenskjöld, y denominado por Gunnar Andersson, segundo comandante de la expedición, quien descubrió flora fósil del jurásico, en cierto estrato de esta montaña. Monte de 527 metros de altura, contiene un circo bien definido que enfrenta al NE, situado cerca de 0,5 milla ESE del paso de la bahía Hope al extremo NE de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Mount Flora (RUS) | 63° 25' 00.0" S | 57° 01' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 118027 Place ID: 4744 | |||
| Mount Flora (GBR) | 63° 25' 00.0" S | 57° 01' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 108849
Place ID: 4744
rising to 520 m SE of Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, was roughly mapped by SwAE in 1902 and named Flora-Berg (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, p.165) or Floras Berg (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 2, map facing p.248) from the rich fossil flora found there by the geologist J.G. Andersson (Andersson Island, q.v.). Montaña Flora (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 2, map facing p.280). Mount Flora (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p. 434; BA chart 3213, 6.x.1950; APC, 1955, p.10; DOS 310 Hope Bay sheet, 1961). Monte Flora (Duse, 1907, map p.187; Pierrou, 1970, p.366; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.126). Mont Flora (Gourdon, 1908, p.41). The mountain was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1945-47, and resurveyed in 1955. Flora (Anderson, 1957, p.45). |
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| Mount Flora (USA) | 63° 25' 00.0" S | 57° 01' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 125213
Place ID: 4744
Mountain, 520 m, containing a well-defined cirque which faces NE, standing 0.5 mi SE of the head of Hope Bay, at the NE end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 1901-04, and named by J. Gunnar Andersson, second-in-command of the expedition who discovered flora fossils of the Jurassic period in certain strata of this mountain. |
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