Mount Flora
Mount Flora is a mountain, 520 m (1,700 ft) high, containing a well-defined
Otto Nordenskiöld, 1901–04, and named by Johan Gunnar Andersson, second-in-command of the expedition who discovered plant fossils of the Jurassic period there.[1]
Antarctic Specially Protected Area
A 30 hectares (74 acres) site on the northern slopes of the mountain, encompassing the fossiliferous
paleoclimatological studies. It lies about 3 kilometres (1.6 nmi) south-east of Argentina’s Esperanza Base and is easily accessible on foot from there and from Hope Bay.[2]
References
- ^ "Mount Flora". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
- ^ "Mount Flora, Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula" (PDF). Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 148: Measure 1. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2002. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Flora". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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63°25′S 57°1′W / 63.417°S 57.017°W
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