Mount Fourcade
| Mount Fourcade | ||
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| height | 215 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 36 ′ 22 ″ S , 62 ° 29 ′ 22 ″ W | |
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Mount Fourcade is a 215 m high mountain on the Danco coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km southwest of Cape Anna .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery mapped him. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the South African geodesist Henry Georges Fourcade (1865–1948), who had developed a stereogonometer for photogrammetry around 1900 .
Web links
- Mount Fourcade in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fourcade on geographic.org (English)