Mount Flora is a mountain, 520 m high, containing a well-defined cirque which faces north-east, standing 0.5 nmi 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 exp…Mount Flora is a mountain, 520 m high, containing a well-defined cirque which faces north-east, standing 0.5 nmi 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.
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