Paul Louis Mercanton
{{Short description|Swiss meteorologist and glaciologist}}
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1876|05|11|df=y}}
|birth_place = Lausanne, Switzerland
|death_date = {{death date and age|1963|02|25|1876|05|11|df=y}}
|death_place = Lausanne, Switzerland
|alma_mater = University of Lausanne
|occupation = Glaciologist, meteorologist
|employer = Central Meteorological Institute
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Paul-Louis Mercanton (11 May 1876 – 25 February 1963) was a Swiss glaciologist, meteorologist and Arctic explorer.
Biography
Mercanton was born in Lausanne on 11 May 1876, a son of Eugène Mercanton and Félicie Marie Lavanchy. He married Alice Marguerite Colomb in 1907.{{cite encyclopedia|title= Paul-Louis Mercanton |first= Wilfried |last=Haeberli |encyclopedia= Historisches Lexikon der Schweitz, HLS |url= https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/028880/2008-10-24/ |language=de |access-date=7 June 2023}}
Mercanton was a member of expeditions to Spitsbergen (1910), Greenland (1912–1913) and Jan Mayen (1921 and 1929). In 1921 he was part of a team which successfully climbed the Beerenberg volcano on Jan Mayen island for the first time. Mercantonfjellet, a mountainous area on Svalbard, is named after him.{{cite web|url = http://placenames.npolar.no/stadnamn/Mercantonfjellet|title = Mercantonfjellet (Svalbard)|publisher = Norwegian Polar Institute|access-date = 2013-11-03|df = dmy-all}}
See also
- Xavier Guillaume Mertz, contemporary Swiss polar explorer
Footnotes
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Bibliography
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- {{cite encyclopedia|editor-last = Lauritzen|editor-first = P. R.|editor-link = Per Roger Lauritzen|date = 2009|title = Mercantonfjellet|encyclopedia = Norsk Fjelleksikon|language = no|location = Arendal|publisher = Friluftsforlaget|isbn = 9788291495477}}
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Category:Explorers of the Arctic
Category:University of Lausanne alumni
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