Mount Flora
Mount Flora is a mountain, high, containing a well-defined cirque which faces north-east, standing south-east of the head of Hope Bay, at the north-east end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under 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.A site on the northern slopes of the mountain, encompassing the fossiliferous strata, has been designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area. It is a scientifically important site for geological, paleobotanical and paleoclimatological studies. It lies about south-east of Argentina’s Esperanza Base and is easily accessible on foot from there and from Hope Bay.
