Rouen Mountains (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Rouen Mountains (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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extending to the N coast of Alexander Island between Bongrain Ice Piedmont and Roberts Ice Piedmont and to the E coast at Schokalsky Bay, bounded to the W by Russian Gap and Palestrina Glacier, and to the S and SE by Tufts Pass and Hampton Glacier, rising to c. 2800m at Mount Paris (q.v.) and including also from N to S Mount Bayonne, The Needles, Mount Calais, Mount Sanderson, Mount Hahn, Mount Cupola and Care Heights. The mountains were roughly mapped by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 and named Massif Rouen after the French city of Rouen, where the expedition was received on its return (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1; Bongrain, 1914, p.52 and vue 43 following p.60). Rouen Range (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). Mount Rouen (BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409). Rouan [sic] Fjellene (HA chart, 1927). The mountains were probably seen from the air by Wilkins, 29 December 1929. Rouenfjellet (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The mountains were
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