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Victor Adolphe Malte-brunVictor Adolphe Malte-Brun (b. 1816-July 13, 1889) in Marcoussis (the Essonne, a suburb of Paris) was a French geographer and cartographer. He is the son of Conrad Malte-Brun, another geographer, of Danish origin, founder of the Socit gographique de Paris. Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun in 1851 became a member of the Socit gographique de Paris, and quickly rose to be its secretary-general. He is buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris. His name was given to a street of the 20e arrondissement of Paris, the Rue de Marcoussis, which still exists today. A mountain of New Zealand, in the New Zealand Alps on South Island also bears his name: Mount Maltebrun (culminating, according to sources', between 3,176 m and 3,199 m). However, nowhere it is said which of the two geographers was to be honoured by this namegiving. Selection of œuvres of Malte-Brun: Malte-Brun, Victor Malte-Brun, Victor Malte-Brun, Victor Malte-Brun, Victor Malte-Brun, Victor
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