Mount Goossens
| Mount Goossens | ||
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| height | 2300 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Fabiola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 35 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Goossens ( French: Monts Goossens [sic!]) Is an approximately 2300 m high and mostly non-iced mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Queen Fabiola Mountains it rises immediately south of Mount Pierre .
Participants in a Belgian Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1959 to 1961 discovered it on October 7, 1960. Expedition leader Guido Derom (1923–2005) named the mountain after Léon Goossens, photographer during the exploratory flights on this research trip.
Web links
- Mount Goossens in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Goossens on geographic.org (English)