Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin in the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, 505 kilometres northeast of Cape Adare, the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is 565 metres long north–south, and between 130 metres and 340 metres wide, reaching a height of 54 metres and covering an area of 4 hectares. Haggits Pilla…Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin in the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, 505 kilometres northeast of Cape Adare, the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is 565 metres long north–south, and between 130 metres and 340 metres wide, reaching a height of 54 metres and covering an area of 4 hectares. Haggits Pillar, a stack reaching 62 metres in height and measuring 50 metres in diameter, yielding an area of less than 0.2 hectares, is located 250 metres west of the island. The island has two small coves with beaches, the rest of the island being surrounded by high cliffs. One of the coves is on the northeastern coast and the other opposite Haggitts Pillar on the western coast of the island.
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