Mount Jacquinot
| Mount Jacquinot | ||
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 Mount Jacquinot with the Chilean Bernardo O'Higgins station in the foreground |
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| height | 475 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 21 '18 " S , 57 ° 52' 49" W | |
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Mount Jacquinot ( French Mont Jacquinot ) is a 475 m high and pyramidal mountain in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the north side of the Trinity Peninsula, it rises up with unsnow-covered rocky outcrops on the north flank 5 km south of Cape Legoupil and 1.5 km east of Huon Bay .
Participants in the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of Jules Dumont d'Urville discovered him. D'Urville named the mountain after Lieutenant Charles Hector Jacquinot (1796–1879), commander of the research vessel Zélée on this expedition. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the French name to English in 1952.
Web links
- Mount Jacquinot in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Jacquinot on geographic.org (English)