Rio Branco, Mount

Mount Rio Branco is a mountain, 975 m, standing 2.5 nautical miles east of Cape Perez on the west coast of . Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and named by Charcot for José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, at that time Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 975 metres
  • Description: mountain in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Branco, Mount” and “Mount Rio Branco”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pérez Peak.

Peak
Cape Pérez is a prominent cape between and on , the west coast of . It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, but apparently not named by them until about 1904, when in working up their scientific reports they gave it the name Trooz.

Rio Branco, Mount

Latitude
-65.417° or 65° 25′ 1″ south
Longitude
-64° or 64° west
Elevation
975 metres (3,199 feet)
Open location code
376RH2M2+62
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9256125624
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6624182
Wiki­data ID
Q6578156
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Rio Branco, Mount” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Rio Branco”
  • Chinese: “里奧布蘭科山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Rio Branco”
  • Dutch: “Rio Branco”
  • German: “Mount Rio Branco”
  • Ladin: “Mount Rio Branco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Rio Branco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Rio Branco”
  • Spanish: “Río Branco, Monte”
  • Swedish: “Mount Rio Branco”
  • Swedish: “Rio Branco”

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