Mount Velain
Mountain in Graham Land, Antarctica
Mount Velain (66°42′S 67°44′W / 66.700°S 67.733°W / -66.700; -67.733) is a 750 m tall mountain with an isolated, black triangular summit showing through its snow mantle, standing in the northeast part of Adelaide Island. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition 1903–05, under Charcot, and named by him for Charles Velain, a French geologist, geographer, and professor of physical geography at the Sorbonne.
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Adelaide Island
- Rothera Research Station
- Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base
and nunatuks
- Mount Barre
- Mount Bodys
- Mount Bouvier
- Bond Nunatak
- Dewar Nunatak
- Mount Ditte
- Mount Gaudry
- Hunt Peak
- Lincoln Nunatak
- Mount Liotard
- Mount Machatschek
- Mount Mangin
- Mount Reeves
- Sighing Peak
- Stokes Peaks
- Mount Velain
- Visser Hill
features
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