Mount Rouge
| Mount Rouge | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 36 ′ 58 ″ S , 63 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Rouge ( French Massif Rouge 'Red Massif' , in the United Kingdom Mount Mellanby ) is a 1200 m high and striking mountain on the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises between the Funk and Cadman glaciers at the head of Beascochea Bay .
Jean-Baptiste Charcot , leader of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910), gave it its descriptive name. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this into English in 1965 in an adapted form. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him against it in 1959 by the British biochemist Edward Mellanby (1884-1955), whose work on rickets to the discovery of vitamin D contributed.
Web links
- Mount Rouge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rouge on geographic.org (English)