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Mount St. Louis () is a mountain on Arrowsmith Peninsula in
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
, Antarctica. Its ice-covered slopes rise to , making it a prominent landmark immediately east of The Gullet. It was first sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition (FAE) under
J.B. Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Bap ...
. Surveyed in 1948 by the
Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
(FIDS) who named it for Canadian pilot Peter B. St. Louis. Mountains of Graham Land Loubet Coast {{LoubetCoast-geo-stub