Mount Pierre (Liège Island)
| Mount Pierre | ||
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| height | 210 m | |
| location | Liège Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 57 '45 " S , 61 ° 49' 47" W | |
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Mount Pierre ( French Mont Pierre ) is a pointed, conical 210 m (according to British data about 450 m ) high mountain on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises immediately south of Moureaux Point .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered him. De Gerlache named him after a sponsor of his research trip. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the name into English in 1952.
Web links
- Mount Pierre in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Pierre on geographic.org (English)