Rouen Mountains

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Rouen Mountains

The Rouen Mountains are a high, long group of mountains on the northern part of Alexander Island in Antarctica. The range runs about 60 km (35 miles) from Mount Bayonne in the west to Care Heights and Mount Cupola in the east, and includes some of the island’s highest peaks. The highest point is Mount Paris, at about 2,800 meters.

The mountains were first mapped during the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908–10, led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named them after the French city of Rouen. Charcot thought there was a break south of Mount Paris, but later air photos from the 1947–48 Ronne expedition showed the range continues southeast to Mount Cupola. The Rouen Mountains were partly surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and were further delineated using U.S. satellite images in the mid-1970s.