Mount Augusta (84°48′S 163°6′E / 84.800°S 163.100°E / -84.800; 163.100Coordinates: 84°48′S 163°6′E / 84.800°S 163.100°E / -84.800; 163.100) is a peak 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Mount Wild, at the south end of the Queen Alexandra Range in Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and named for Augusta Edwards, a relative of Ernest Shackleton and the wife of Swinford Edwards.
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“On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.”
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