Rouen Mountains

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Rouen Mountains
The north coast of Alexander I Island with Skaidava Bay (lower center) and the northern foothills of the Rouen Mountains

The north coast of Alexander I Island with Skaidava Bay (lower center) and the northern foothills of the Rouen Mountains

Highest peak Mount Hall ( 3100  m )
location Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Rouen Mountains (Antarctic Peninsula)
Rouen Mountains
Coordinates 69 ° 10 ′  S , 70 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 69 ° 10 ′  S , 70 ° 53 ′  W
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The Rouen Mountains are a mountain range stretching 56 km from northwest to southeast in the north of Alexander I Island . It ranges from Mount Bayonne to Care Heights and Mount Cupola .

They were first mapped by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who named them after the French city of Rouen . Charcot believed that the chain south of Mount Paris was broken, but aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) and analyzed by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey refuted this assumption. The position of the Rouen Mountains was fully determined using satellite images between January 1974 and February 1975.

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