Mount Verne
| Mount Verne | ||
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| height | 1645 m | |
| location | Pourquoi-Pas Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 44 ′ 51 ″ S , 67 ° 28 ′ 42 ″ W | |
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Mount Verne is a 1645 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee 1635 m ) high mountain in the south of the Pourquoi-Pas Island off the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 10 km east of Bongrain Point .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot first sighted him in 1909 and made rough measurements. Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey specified this in 1948 and gave the mountain its name. It is named after the French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), whose book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the template for naming other objects on the island.
Web links
- Mount Verne in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Verne on geographic.org (English)