Brugmann Mountains
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| location | Liège Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 2 ′ S , 61 ° 58 ′ W | |
The Brugmann Mountains ( French Monts Brugmann ) are up to 850 m high mountains on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . The steep, rugged mountains, covered with snow on their eastern slopes, extend in a northeast-southwest orientation along the east side of the island.
The mountains were discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . He named it after the Belgian banker Georges Brugmann (1829–1900), a sponsor of the expedition. The name of the mountain appeared in 1948 and 1948 on British maps for the first time under its common today English version after 1909 by the Bruggman Mountains , 1916 by the Brüggmann Mountains , 1930 by the Bruggmann Mountains and 1942 by Brugman Mountains was talk. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee fixed this on September 8, 1953, around a year after the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names .
Web links
- Brugmann Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brugmann Mountains on geographic.org (English)