Mount Sabatier
| Mount Sabatier | ||
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| height | 1145 m | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 48 ′ 57 ″ S , 36 ° 8 ′ 18 ″ W | |
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Mount Sabatier is a 1145 m high mountain in southern South Georgia . It rises immediately north of Mount Senderens and 1.5 km northeast of Paradise Beach .
The mountain is first noted on maps from the 1930s. The South Georgia Survey took surveys between 1951 and 1957 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the French chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Sabatier (1854-1941) who, together with Jean Baptiste Senderens, developed catalytic hydrogenation for fat hardening in 1907 , which was important in the processing of whale oil .
Web links
- Mount Sabatier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sabatier on geographic.org (English)