Gourdon Peak
| Gourdon Peak | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Booth Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 5 '20 " S , 63 ° 59' 46" W | |
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The Gourdon Peak ( French Sommet Gourdon ) is a mountain around 800 m high on Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 800 m north of Wandel Peak as one of several peaks of a mountain ridge with north-south orientation.
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) were the first to map it. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named the mountain after the French geologist and glaciologist Ernest Gourdon (1873 - unknown), who took part in this research trip.
Web links
- Gourdon Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gourdon Peak on geographic.org (English)