Mount Chaudoin
| Mount Chaudoin | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 9 '15 " S , 162 ° 1' 30" E | |
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| 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.
Web links
- Mount Chaudoin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Chaudoin on geographic.org (English)