Mount Fourcade
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Mount Fourcade is a mountain
Mountain
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 standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Cape Anna
Cape Anna
Cape Anna is a prominent black cape rising to 280 m, immediately west of Anna Cove, located 1 mile west of Louise Island and the entrance to Hugershoff Cove, and 2.3 miles northeast of Mount Fourcade, and forming the north tip of Arctowski Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered...

 and Anna Cove
Anna Cove
Anna Cove is a cove immediately east of Cape Anna at the north end of the Arctowski Peninsula, along the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition on January 30, 1898, and named in association with Cape Anna....

 on the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, east of Orne Harbour. Charted 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 :...

 under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for the South African surveyor Henry Georges Fourcade, who designed the stereogoniometer and gave it practical application for plotting photogrammetric surveys in about 1900.
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