Mount Launoit
| Mount Launoit | ||
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| height | 2470 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Launoit ( French Mont de Launoit ) is a 2470 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises up between Mount Brouwer and Mount Imbert in the Belgica Mountains .
Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. It is named after the Belgian entrepreneur Paul Auguste Cyrille de Launoit (1891–1981), a sponsor of the research trip.
Web links
- Mount Launoit in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Launoit on geographic.org (English)