Mount Collard
| Mount Collard | ||
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| height | 2350 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Collard ( French Mont Collard ) is a 2350 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises 5.5 km south of Mount Perov on the southern foothills of 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 Belgian politician Léo Collard (1902–1981), minister for public education in his home country.
Web links
- Mount Collard in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Collard on geographic.org (English)