Arrival Heights
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Arrival Heights are clifflike heights which extend in a northeast–southwest direction along the west side of Hut Point Peninsula
Hut Point Peninsula
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow land mass from 2 to 3 miles wide and 15 miles long, projecting southwest from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island....

, just north of Hut Point. They were discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...

. The name suggests the expedition's arrival at its winter headquarters at nearby Hut Point.
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