Louise Peak
| Louise Peak | ||
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| height | 625 m | |
| location | Booth Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 4 '37 " S , 63 ° 59' 58" W | |
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The Louise Peak ( French Pic Louise ) is a 625 m high mountain on the Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 1.5 km north of Gourdon Peak .
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 him after the sister of the French geologist and glaciologist Ernest Gourdon (1873 - unknown), who was involved in this research trip.
Web links
- Louise Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Louise Peak on geographic.org (English)