Mount Chaudoin is an abrupt mountain rising to about 1400 metres (4,593.2 ft) in the west part of the Gonville and Caius Range

Gonville and Caius Range

Gonville and Caius Range are a range of peaks, 1,000 to 1,500 m, between Mackay Glacier and Debenham Glacier in Victoria Land. First mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott. Named for Gonville and Caius College, of Cambridge University, the alma mater of several members of the...

, Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. The mountain forms part of the divide between Bachtold Glacier

Bachtold Glacier

Bachtold Glacier is an Antarctic glacier flowing north from Mount Chaudoin, Gonville and Caius Range, into the lower part of Cotton Glacier. The glacier drains the broad slopes between Killer Ridge and Red Ridge. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Harry W...

 and the head of Griffiths Glacier

Griffiths Glacier

Griffiths Glacier is a prominent cirque-type glacier located northeast of Crisp Glacier in Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land. The feature drains east-southeast to Debenham Glacier to the east of Second Facet. Named after Harold Griffiths who was associated with Antarctic exploration for over...

. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 in 2007 after YNC Robert L. Chaudoin U.S. Navy (Seabees), who at the time was the Senior Administrative Yeoman to the commanding officer and member of the construction crew which built the original McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...

 and the original South Pole Station in the 1955–57 pre-IGY

International Geophysical Year

The International Geophysical Year was an international scientific project that lasted from July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West was seriously interrupted...

period; he also was the first U.S. Navy Postal Clerk at the South Pole Station, 1956.