Mount Vélain
| Mount Vélain | ||
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| height | 750 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 42 ′ 39 ″ S , 67 ° 46 ′ 41 ″ W | |
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Mount Vélain ( French Sommet Vélain ) is a 750 m (according to British data 920 m ) high mountain on the West Antarctic Adelaide Island . Its isolated and triangular peak penetrates the ice sheet in the northwest of the island.
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot first mapped it and named it after the French geologist and geographer Charles Vélain (1845–1925). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the French name to English in 1951.
Web links
- Mount Vélain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Vélain on geographic.org (English)