Mount Boe
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Mount Boe is a mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

, 2,520 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) northeast of Mount Victor in the Belgica Mountains
Belgica Mountains
Belgica Mountains is an isolated chain of mountains about long, standing east-southeast of the Sor Rondane Mountains in Queen Maud Land, in the Antarctic. The chain was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gaston de Gerlache, and named after the ship Belgica, commanded by his...

. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition
Belgian Antarctic Expedition
The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897 to 1899, named after its expedition vessel Belgica, was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region.- Preparation and Surveying :...

, 1957-58, under G. de Gerlache, who named it for Captain Sigmund Boe, commander of the ship Polarhav, which transported the expedition.
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