Mount Goossens
Mount Goossens is a largely bare rock massif, 2,200 metres high, standing next south of Mount Pierre in the Queen Fabiola Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered on October 7, 1960, by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, under Guido Derom, who named it for Leon Goossens, photographer of the Belgian party which made reconnoitering aircraft flights in this area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 2,200 metres
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Goossens, Monts”
Mount Goossens
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Goossens” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Goossens”
- Chinese: “古森斯山”
- Dutch: “Mount Goossens”
- German: “Mount Goossens”
- Ladin: “Mount Goossens”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Goossens”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Monts Goossens”
- Swedish: “Goossens”
- Swedish: “Mount Goossens”
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