Havre Mountains

The Havre Mountains are a large group of mountains forming the north-western extremity of Alexander Island, in the British Antarctic Territory, extending twenty nautical miles in an east–west direction between Cape Vostok and the Russian Gap.

The mountains were first seen in 1821 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and re-sighted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99. They were roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named them for Le Havre, the French port from which his ship, the Pourquol Pas? sailed in 1908. The mountains were mapped in detail from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960.

See also

• Lassus Mountains
• Rouen Mountains

Location

• Location map: 69°7’60"S, 71°40’0"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Havre Mountains