Havre Mountains

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The Havre Mountains are a large group of mountains at the northwest edge of Alexander Island in Antarctica. They stretch about 37 kilometers (20 nautical miles) from east to west between Cape Vostok and the Russian Gap, and rise up to 1,984 meters at Dimitrova Peak. They were first seen in 1821 by a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and were later spotted again by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–99). The French Antarctic Expedition (1908–10) led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot charted them more fully and named the range for Le Havre, the French port from which the Pourquoi-Pas? sailed in 1908. The mountains were mapped in detail from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48), and a more complete mapping was done in 1960 by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.