Mount Gilbert () is a mountain, high, on the divide between
Airy Glacier
The Airy Glacier () is a glacier long and wide, flowing west to the northeast portion of Forster Ice Piedmont, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The glacier was first roughly surveyed by British Graham Land Expedition of 1936&n ...
and
Seller Glacier, northwest of
Mount Castro, in the west-central
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
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It was photographed from the air by the
British Graham Land Expedition in February 1937, and the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
Background
Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...
in November 1947. It was surveyed from the ground by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...
in December 1958, and was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
for
William Gilbert, an English physician whose pioneer work ''
De magnete, magneticisque corporibus'' (1600) laid the foundations for an understanding of earth magnetism and the variation of the compass.
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References
Mountains of Graham Land
Fallières Coast
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