Mount Boë
| Mount Boë | ||
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| height | 2520 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Boë ( French Mont Boë and Mont Bo ) is a 2520 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 1.5 km northeast of Mount Victor in the Belgica Mountains .
Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. It is named after the Norwegian captain Sigmund Bøe (1916–2006), who brought the expedition members to their destination on the ship Polarharv .
Web links
- Mount Boë in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Boë on geographic.org (English)