Deschanel Peak
| Deschanel Peak | ||
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| height | 750 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 54 ′ 51 ″ S , 67 ° 14 ′ 39 ″ W | |
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The Deschanel Peak is a 750 m high, partly icy and isolated mountain at the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Rasmussen Peninsula, it rises from the southern section of a glacier southeast of Cape Berteaux .
The polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named him in January 1909 as part of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910). It is named after Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), from 1898 member of the Académie française and later President of France.
Web links
- Deschanel Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Deschanel Peak on geographic.org (English)