Mount Bigo

Mount Bigo
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height	1980 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Lisiya Ridge
Coordinates	65 ° 46 ′ 44 ″ S , 64 ° 16 ′ 13 ″ W Coordinates: 65 ° 46 ′ 44 ″ S , 64 ° 16 ′ 13 ″ W

Mount Bigo ( French Mont Bigo ) is a 1980 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee around 1700 m ) high mountain on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Magnier Peninsula, it rises in the Lisiya Ridge immediately southwest of Mount Perchot at the head of Bigo Bay .

Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered him. Charcot named the mountain after the French ship owner Robert Bigo from Calais , member of the Ligue Maritime Française and sponsor of the research trip .

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