Who named Mount Markham?
Ernest Shackleton
Douglas Mawson
Robert Falcon Scott
Edmund Hillary
Answer
Robert Falcon Scott, a British Antarctic explorer, named Mount Markham during the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1904. It was named after Albert Hastings Markham, the geographer of an earlier British Arctic expedition of the Alert and the Discovery. The mountain is located in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
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