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{{Short description|Mountain in Enderby Land, Antarctica}}
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[[File: Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae), walking.jpg|thumb| Adélie penguins breed in the IBA]]

''' Mount Biscoe''' is a distinctive black peak,<ref name=bli/> the easternmost and largest of two ice-free rock massifs located 6&nbsp;km south-west of [[Cape Ann (Enderby Land)|Cape Ann]] on the coast of [[Enderby Land]] in [[Antarctica]]. About 700&nbsp;m in height, it lies 7&nbsp;km north-west of [[Wordie Nunatak]], and 7&nbsp;km north-east of [[Mount Hurley]].<ref name=bli/>

==Discovery and naming==
The mountain was seen from the [[RRS Discovery|''Discovery'']] by the [[British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition]] (1929-31) and named by Sir [[Douglas Mawson]] on 13 March 1931, after explorer [[John Biscoe]] who is thought to have discovered the feature a century earlier and called it Cape Ann after his wife. Mawson applied the name Cape Ann to the nearby headland. The mountain's position was fixed by an [[ANARE]] survey party in 1957.<ref name=aadc>{{cite web |url=https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=1656 |title=Mount Biscoe |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=AADC Gazetteer |publisher=Australian Antarctic Data Centre |access-date=18 November 2020}}</ref>
 
==Important Bird Area==
A 361&nbsp;ha site covering the beaches, and extending up the lower slopes of the mountain to an altitude of 200&nbsp;m, has been designated an [[Important Bird Area]] (IBA) by [[BirdLife International]] because it supports about 29,000 breeding pairs of [[Adélie penguin]]s, based on 2011 satellite imagery. Thousands of [[Antarctic petrel]]s breed on the slopes above the Adélie colony.<ref name=bli>{{cite web |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/mount-biscoe-iba-antarctica |title=Mount Biscoe |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2015 |website=BirdLife Data Zone |publisher=BirdLife International |access-date=18 November 2020}}</ref>
 
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