Paul Louis Mercanton
# Paul Louis Mercanton

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.

Mercanton was a member of expeditions to Spitsbergen (1910), Greenland (1912–1913) and Jan Mayen (1921 and 1929). Mercantonfjellet, a mountainous area on Svalbard, is named after him.

He died in Lausanne on 25 February 1963.

