Mount Lorette
| Mount Lorette | ||
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| height | 2200 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Lorette ( French Mont Notre-Dame de Lorette ) is a 2200 m high and ice-free mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises immediately west of Mount Loodts in the Belgica Mountains .
Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. De Gerlache de Gomery named him after Notre-Dame de Lorette (French for Our Lady of Lorette ), patron saint of aviators.
Web links
- Mount Lorette in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lorette on geographic.org (English)