title: Paul Louis Mercanton
text: # 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.
  
  