Mount Guéguen
| Mount Guéguen | ||
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| height | 365 m | |
| location | Booth Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Guéguen ( French Mont Guéguen ) is a 365 m high, rocky and pointed mountain on Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 400 m northwest of Louise Peak .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) were the first to map it. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named him after Jacques Guéguen (1875–1954), who on this expedition took the crew on the Français and those on the Pourquoi-Pas? at Charcot's subsequent expedition (1908–1910). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the French name to English in 1952.
Web links
- Mount Guéguen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Guéguen on geographic.org (English)