Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Rouen Mountains

(Alexander Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 69° 9' 58" S 70° 52' 59" W
extending to the N coast of Alexander Island between Bongrain Ice Piedmont and Roberts Ice Piedmont and to the E coast at Schokalsky Bay, bounded to the W by Russian Gap and Palestrina Glacier, and to the S and SE by Tufts Pass and Hampton Glacier, rising to c. 2800m at Mount Paris (q.v.) and including also from N to S Mount Bayonne, The Needles, Mount Calais, Mount Sanderson, Mount Hahn, Mount Cupola and Care Heights. The mountains were roughly mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, in January 1909 and named Massif Rouen after the French city of Rouen, where the expedition was received on its return. The mountains were probably seen from the air by Wilkins, 29 December 1929. The mountains were