Mount Chaudoin

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Mount Chaudoin
height 1400  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 9 '15 "  S , 162 ° 1' 30"  E Coordinates: 77 ° 9 '15 "  S , 162 ° 1' 30"  E
Mount Chaudoin (Antarctica)
Mount Chaudoin
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Chaudoin is a steep, 1400  m high mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises to the west of the Gonville and Caius Range .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2007 by Robert Lee Chaudoin (* 1929), who as a member of the construction brigades Seabees of the United States Navy in the 1950s on the construction of the first McMurdo Station and the first Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was involved and in 1956 acted on the latter as a postal worker.

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