Mount Elliott is a conspicuous mountain

Mountain

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, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Cape Sobral

Cape Sobral

Cape Sobral is a high, mainly snow-covered elevation which surmounts the south end of Sobral Peninsula, on the east coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, who named it for Lieutenant Jose M. Sobral of the Argentine Navy, asst. physicist...

 and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Rice Bastion

Rice Bastion

Rice Bastion is a substantial mountain mass surmounted by a small crown of exposed rock which appears slightly higher than the plateau behind it, projecting from the edge of Detroit Plateau, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, 8 miles southwest of Mount Elliott and 8.8 miles north-northwest of...

, on Nordenskjöld Coast

Nordenskjold Coast

Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named for F. K. Elliott, leader of the FIDS base at Hope Bay

Hope Bay

Hope Bay on Trinity Peninsula, is long and wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound....

in 1947 and 1948.