Mount Senderens
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Mount Senderens is a mountain
Mountain
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, 1,315 m, standing close south of Mount Sabatier
Mount Sabatier
Mount Sabatier is a mountain 1,145 m, standing close north of Mount Senderens and 1 mile northeast of Paradise Beach in the south part of South Georgia. The feature appears on charts dating back to the 1930s...

 and 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north of Rogged Bay
Rogged Bay
Rogged Bay is a small bay lying immediately north of Cape Disappointment, the south tip of South Georgia. The name Rogged Bay, which was probably used by early sealers, was recorded by Arnaldo Faustini on a 1906 map and applied to a wider but less distinctive embayment in this vicinity...

 at the south end of South Georgia. The feature appears on charts dating back to the 1930s. It was surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Jean-Baptiste Senderens (1856–1937), French chemist, whose work with Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier , was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He is the brother of Auguste Sabatier....

led to the introduction in about 1907 of the hydrogenation process for hardening whale oil.
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