Antarctica

Mount Solvay

Mount Solvay is a mountain, 2,560 m, close north of in the . Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1957–58, under Gaston de Gerlache, who named it for Ernest John Solvay, a patron of the expedition.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,560 metres
  • Description: mountain in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Mont Solvay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gillet, Mount and Mount Limburg Stirum.

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Belgica Mountains is an isolated chain of mountains about 10 miles long, standing 60 miles east-southeast of the Sor Rondane Mountains in , in the .

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Belgica Mountains is an isolated chain of mountains about 10 miles long, standing 60 miles east-southeast of the Sor Rondane Mountains in , in the .

Mount Solvay

Latitude
-72.5774° or 72° 34′ 39″ south
Longitude
31.40549° or 31° 24′ 20″ east
Elevation
2,560 metres (8,399 feet)
Open location code
2GVHCCF4+25
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8164676398
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6625685
Wiki­data ID
Q7703498
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Satellite Map

Discover Mount Solvay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Solvay” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Solvay”
  • Chinese: “索爾韋山”
  • Czech: “Mount Solvay”
  • Czech: “Solvayova hora”
  • Dutch: “Mount Solvay”
  • French: “Mont Solvay”
  • German: “Mount Solvay”
  • Ladin: “Mount Solvay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Solvay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mont Solvay”
  • Swedish: “Mount Solvay”
  • Swedish: “Solvay”

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Highlights include Mount Hoge and Mount Brouwer.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Solvay”. Photo: ravas51, CC BY-SA 2.0.