Mount Blackburn (Antarctica)
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Mount Blackburn () is a massive, flat-topped mountain, 3,275 m (10,744 ft), standing just east of the Scott Glacier where it surmounts the southwest end of California Plateau and the Watson Escarpment, in the Queen Maud Mountains.
Discovered by and named for Quin A. Blackburn, geologist, leader of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party which sledged the length of Scott Glacier in December 1934.
This article incorporates text from Mount Blackburn (Antarctica), in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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