Mount Maere
| Mount Maere | ||
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| height | 2300 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Belgica Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Maere ( French Mont de Maere ) is a 2300 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises in the Belgica Mountains on the western flank of the Norsk Polarinstitutt glacier and immediately southwest of Mount Bastin .
Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. It is named after Xavier de Maere d'Aertrijcke (* 1923), deputy expedition leader and chief meteorologist of the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Maere in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Maere on geographic.org (English)