Mount Mangin
| Mount Mangin | ||
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| height | 2040 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | The Princess Royal Range | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 24 ′ 56 ″ S , 68 ° 27 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Mangin ( French Massif Mangin ) is a 2040 m high mountain on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . It rises 8 km northeast of Mount Barré in the Princess Royal Range .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and roughly mapped it. Charcot named it after the French botanist Louis Alexandre Mangin (1852–1937). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the French name into English in 1950.
Web links
- Mount Mangin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mangin on geographic.org (English)