Les Dents
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 57 ′ S , 70 ° 56 ′ W | |
Les Dents (French for the teeth ; in the United Kingdom The Needles , English for the needles ) are four 1500 m high and distinctive rock pinnacles in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They rise between Mount Bayonne and Mount Paris .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot roughly mapped them and gave them their descriptive names. The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them more precisely in 1960 with the help of aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948).
Web links
- Dents in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Les Dents on geographic.org (English)