Havre Mountains

Havre Mountains
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Coordinates	69 ° 16 ′ S , 71 ° 45 ′ W Coordinates: 69 ° 16 ′ S , 71 ° 45 ′ W

The Havre Mountains ( French Massif Le Havre ) are a mountain range that forms the northwestern extension of the Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . They extend over a length of 32 km in an east-west orientation between Cape Vostok and the Russian Gap .

The first sighting in 1821 goes back to the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) led by the German-Baltic seafarer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . Another sighting followed during the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out a rough mapping. Charcot named the mountains after the French port city of Le Havre , home port of his research vessel Pourquoi Pas? . The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 carried out a detailed mapping using aerial photographs taken during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated Charcot's name into English on March 2, 1961.

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