Paul-Louis Mercanton (11 May 1876 – 25 February 1963) was a Swiss glaciologist, meteorologist and Arctic explorer.

[1] Mercanton was a member of expeditions to Spitsbergen (1910), Greenland (1912–1913) and Jan Mayen (1921 and 1929).

In 1921 he was part of a team which successfully climbed the Beerenberg volcano on Jan Mayen island for the first time.

Mercantonfjellet, a mountainous area on Svalbard, is named after him.

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