Mount Monique is a mountain, about 600 m high, with a prominent rocky north face and ice-covered south slopes, at the western end of the
Marion Nunataks
The Marion Nunataks are a small group of nunataks rising to about on Charcot Island, in the eastern Bellinghausen Sea of Antarctica. They form a 12 km chain of rocky outcrops on the mid-north coast of the island, stretching from Mount Moniqu ...
on the north coast of
Charcot Island in the east
Bellinghausen Sea
The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island (there the southern ''Vostokkyst ...
of
Antarctica.
History
It was discovered and roughly mapped on 11 January 1910, by the
French Antarctic Expedition under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him in association with Marion Nunataks and
Mount Martine after his daughter, Monique. It was photographed from the air on 9 February 1947 in the course of the US Navy's
Operation Highjump
Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...
and mapped from these photographs by Derek J.H. Searle of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. The mountain forms part of the Marion Nunataks
Antarctic Specially Protected Area An Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) is an area on the continent of Antarctica, or on nearby islands, which is protected by scientists and several different international bodies. The protected areas were established in 1961 under the Antarct ...
(ASPA No.170) designated as such for its biological values.
References
Monique
Antarctic Specially Protected Areas
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