Mount Lecointe
| Mount Lecointe | ||
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| height | 3620 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Lecointe is a 3620 m high and striking mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 5 km northwest of Mount Rabot in the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the Belgian geophysicist George Lecointe (1869–1929), a participant in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899).
See also
Web links
- Mount Lecointe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lecointe on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Lecointe. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, pp. 189–190 (English)