Mount Rabot
| Mount Rabot | ||
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| height | 3335 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Rabot is a 3335 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 5 km southeast of Mount Lecointe in the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the French geographer and glaciologist Charles Rabot (1856–1944).
See also
Web links
- Mount Rabot in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rabot on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Rabot. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 252 (English)