Rouen Mountains

Rouen Mountains

The Rouen Mountains (coord|69|10|S|70|53|W|) are a prominent mountain range, reaching about 2,800 m and extending 35 miles (60 km) NW-SE from Mount Bayonne to Care Heights and Mount Cupola, in north Alexander Island, Antarctica.

The mountains were first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-10, under J. B. Charcot and named by him after the French city of Rouen. Charcot indicated a break in these mountains south of Mount Paris, but air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition of 1947-48, as interpreted by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) indicate that the mountains are continuous southeast to Mount Cupola. They were partly surveyed by FIDS in 1948 and further delineated from U.S. satellite imagery of January 1974 and February 1975.

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