Mount Fourcade

Mount Fourcade

Mount Fourcade (64°36′S 62°30′W / 64.6°S 62.5°W / -64.6; -62.5Coordinates: 64°36′S 62°30′W / 64.6°S 62.5°W / -64.6; -62.5) is a mountain standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Cape Anna and Anna Cove on the west coast of Graham Land, east of Orne Harbour. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for the South African surveyor Henry Georges Fourcade, who designed the stereogoniometer and gave it practical application for plotting photogrammetric surveys in about 1900.

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