Mount Cornu

Mount Cornu

Mount Cornu (64°9′S 60°35′W / 64.15°S 60.583°W / -64.15; -60.583) is a mountain standing at the head of Gregory Glacier and north of Breguet Glacier, in northern Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Paul Cornu, French engineer who, in a machine of his own construction, was the first man to leave the ground successfully, although not vertically, in a helicopter.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Cornu" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).