Mount Touring Club
| Mount Touring Club | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Touring Club ( French Sommet du Touring Club ) is a small and snow-capped mountain on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises near the end of a ridge that extends southwest from Mount Peary .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot discovered and named him. It is named after an exploration team that marched along the south side of the mountain on this research trip to map this area. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the French name into English in 1950.
Web links
- Mount Touring Club in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Touring Club on geographic.org (English)