Mount Gillet
| Mount Gillet | ||
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| height | 2460 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Gillet ( French Mont Gillet ) is a 2460 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises just north of Mount Van der Essen in the Belgica Mountains .
Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. The namesake is the French entrepreneur Charles Gillet, a sponsor of the research trip.
Web links
- Mount Gillet in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gillet on geographic.org (English)