COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

rising to c. 1900m in NW Alexander Island and including St George Peak, Mount Newman and Simon Peak, bounded by Bongrain Ice Piedmont to N, Russian Gap and Palestrina Glacier to E, and Lazarev Bay to W, were sighted by RAE, 28 January 1821 ([Bellingshausen], atlas, 1831a, sheet 61), and again by BeAE in February 1898 (Lecointe, 1905, p.99-100); very roughly positioned by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 and named Massif Le H vre (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1) or Massif Le Havre (Bongrain, 1914, vue 43 following p.60; BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409), after the French port of Le Havre from which the expedition ship Pourquoi-Pas? sailed in 1908. Le Havre Range (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). Le Havre Fjellene (HA chart, 1927). Mount Havre (Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374). Havrefjellet (Aagaard, 1930, end map). ChaíÎne Le Havre (France. SHM, 1937, p.409). Havre Mountains (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.496; BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; [in 69 08'S 71 40'W] APC, 1961, p.3; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected] APC, 1977, p.16; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978). The mountains were photographed from the air by USAS, 4 November 1940 (USHO, 1943, photograph p.167). Montes Havre (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Monte Havre (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Pierrou, 1970, p.419). The mountains were again photographed from the air on US Operation "Highjump", 9 February 1947, and by RARE in 1947, and mapped from the air photographs by FIDS in 1959. Monti Havre (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 9). Gory Avr (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). Montes Le Havre (Chile. IH chart 58, 1971; IHA, 1974, p.181). The mountains were surveyed from the ground by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1976-77.

Mountains forming the NW extremity of Alexander Island, extending 20 mi in an E-W direction between Cape Vostok and Russian Gap. First seen in 1821 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen and resighted by the BelgAE, 1897-99. They were roughly charted by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, who named them for Le Havre, French port from which the Pourquol Pas? sailed in 1908. The mountains were mapped in detail from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960.

Descubierto y denominado por la Expedición Antártica Francesa, dirigida por el Dr. Jean B. Charcot, adopta su nombre en recuerdo del puerto francés, situado en la desembocadura del río Sena, donde soltó amarras el buque expedicionario "Pourquoi-Pas". Montes de 1.920 metros de altura situado al NW de la isla Alejandro I, costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.