Mount Bouvier
| Mount Bouvier | ||
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| height | 2070 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 13 '8 " S , 68 ° 10' 35" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Bouvier ( French Pic Bouvier ) is a 2070 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 2075 m ) high, massive and mainly ice-free mountain on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . It rises just north of the head end of Stonehouse Bay in the eastern part of the island.
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and roughly mapped it. Charcot named it after the French naturalist Eugène Louis Bouvier (1856–1944). Recent mapping carried out at the guided also by Charcot Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) and by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1948 and 1950. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names Charcot's naming transferred in 1951 into English, which the UK Antarctic Place - Joined Names Committee on September 8, 1953.
Web links
- Mount Bouvier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bouvier on geographic.org (English)