Mount Eyskens
| Mount Eyskens | ||
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| height | 2300 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Fabiola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 35 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Eyskens ( French Mont Eyskens ) is a 2300 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises just north of Mount Derom in the Queen Fabiola Mountains .
Participants in a Belgian Antarctic expedition lasting from 1959 to 1961 discovered it on October 7, 1960. Expedition leader Guido Derom (1923–2005) named the mountain after Albert Eyskens, pilot of one of the two aircraft with which reconnaissance flights had been undertaken during the expedition.
Web links
- Mount Eyskens in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Eyskens on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Albert Eyskens. Photo and information on belgian-wings.be (accessed April 6, 2017).