Baudin Peaks
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 50 ′ S , 67 ° 3 ′ W | |
The Baudin Peaks are a group of up to 750 m high mountains on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They tower in the southeast corner of Mikkelsen Bay immediately southwest of the mouth of the Clarke Glacier and 14.5 km east-northeast of Cape Berteaux in the north of the base of the Rasmussen Peninsula .
The area around this mountain range was first sighted and roughly mapped in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named an object in the area as Cap Pierre Baudin . Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) made a rough map of these mountains in 1936. A new mapping was carried out between 1948 and 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , which assigned Charcot's object to this mountain range. It is named after Pierre Baudin, then a port engineer in what is now Recife , who helped Charcot's research trip back to France in 1910.
Web links
- Baudin Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Baudin Peaks on geographic.org (English)