Mount Rossel

Mount Rossel
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height	2250 m
location	Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Belgica Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 72 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 31 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Rossel ( French Mont Rossel ) is a 2250 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It rises in the Belgica Mountains 5 km southwest of Mount Perov .

Participants in the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1957/58 under Gaston de Gerlache de Gomery (1919-2006) discovered him. It is named after Marie-Thérèse Rossel (1910–1987), editor of the newspaper Le Soir and sponsor of the research trip. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the French name into English in 1965.

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