Mount Monique
| Mount Monique | ||
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| height | 600 m | |
| location | Charcot Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 45 '50 " S , 75 ° 22' 27" W | |
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Mount Monique ( French Sommet Monique ) is a 600 m high mountain with a distinctive northern flank and icy southern slopes on the West Antarctic Charcot Island . It rises 5 km west of the Marion Nunatakker on the north coast of the island.
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered it on January 11, 1910. Charcot named the mountain after his second daughter Monique (1907-1995). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred 1950, the French designation into English. Aerial photos of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) from February 9, 1947 were used in 1960 for mapping by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey .
Web links
- Mount Monique in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Monique on geographic.org (English)