Mount Cervin () is a small rocky hill, high, on the east side of
Petrel Island in the
Geologie Archipelago. It was charted in 1951 by the
French Antarctic Expedition
The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica.
First expedition
In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fable ...
and named by them for the
Matterhorn
The (, ; it, Cervino, ; french: Cervin, ; rm, Matterhorn) is a mountain of the Alps, straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy. It is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak in the extended Monte Rosa area of the ...
("Mont Cervin" in French), which it resembles in form.
References
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Mountains of Adélie Land
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