Mount Gaston de Gerlache
| Mount Gaston de Gerlache | ||
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| height | 2400 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Fabiola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 35 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Gaston de Gerlache ( French Mont Gaston de Gerlache ) is a 2400 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is the southernmost point in the Queen Fabiola Mountains .
Participants in a Belgian Antarctic expedition lasting from 1959 to 1961 discovered it in 1960. Expedition leader Guido Derom (1923-2005) named the mountain after the Belgian polar explorer Gaston de Gerlache (1919-2006), leader of the Belgian Antarctic expedition lasting from 1957 to 1958 and son of the polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery .
Web links
- Mount Gaston de Gerlache in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gaston de Gerlache on geographic.org (English)