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Mount Gilbert (other)
Mount Gilbert can refer to: * Mount Gilbert (Alaska) in Alaska, USA * Mount Gilbert (Chugach Mountains) in Alaska, USA * Mount Gilbert (Antarctica) * Mount Gilbert (California) in California, USA * Mount Gilbert (Nevada) in Nevada, USA * Mount Gilbert (British Columbia), in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains * Mount Gilbert (Northern Ireland), near Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...
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Mount Gilbert (Alaska)
Mount Gilbert is a volcano which forms the northern part of Akun Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands, USA. Active fumaroles were documented 1 mi (1.5 km) northeast of the summit in the early 1900s. See also *List of volcanoes in the United States of America A list of volcanoes in the United States and its territories. Alaska American Samoa Arizona California Colorado Hawaii /[./[Https://www.sci.news/geology/puhahonu-shield-volcano-08435.html Puhahonu ... Sources Volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands-Selected PhotographsAlaska Volcano Observatory External links

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Mount Gilbert (Chugach Mountains)
Mount Gilbert is a prominent glaciated mountain summit located in the Chugach Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated east of Anchorage, northeast of Whittier, and northeast of Mount Muir, on land managed by Chugach National Forest. Although modest in elevation, relief is significant since the mountain rises up from tidewater at Harriman Fjord in Prince William Sound in less than six miles. History The peak was named in 1908 by Ulysses Sherman Grant and Daniel F. Higgins for Grove Karl Gilbert (1843-1918}, a geologist with the United States Geological Survey who was part of the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition that explored this area. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1910 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. On June 14, 1960, a Pacific Northern Airlines Lockheed L-749A Constellation aircraft crashed near the summit, killing all 14 persons aboard. It was on the final leg of a flight from Seattle to Anchorage, after having just dropped off ...
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Mount Gilbert (Antarctica)
Mount Gilbert () is a mountain, high, on the divide between Airy Glacier and Seller Glacier, northwest of Mount Castro, in the west-central Antarctic Peninsula. It was photographed from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition in February 1937, and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in November 1947. It was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey 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) and ... 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. References Mountains of Graham Land Fallières Coast {{ ...
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Mount Gilbert (California)
Mount Gilbert is a mountain located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada range in California, United States. It is situated on the shared boundary of Kings Canyon National Park and John Muir Wilderness, and along the common border of Fresno County, California, Fresno County and Inyo County, California, Inyo County. It is west of the community of Big Pine, California, Big Pine, 0.8 mile (1.3 km) northwest of Mount Johnson (California), Mount Johnson, and one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Mount Thompson, which is its nearest higher neighbor. Mount Gilbert ranks as the 127th-highest summit in California. Topographic relief is significant as the south aspect rises above LeConte Canyon in less than two miles, and the northern aspect rises 3,340 feet above South Lake in 2.5 miles. History This mountain's name commemorates eminent geologist Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918), who worked much of the Sierra Nevada range with the Wheeler Survey. The mountain's name was officially adopted i ...
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Mount Gilbert (Nevada)
Mount Gilbert is the sixth-highest named mountain of the Ruby Mountains and the eighth-highest in Elko County, in Nevada, United States. It is the forty-third-highest mountain in the state. The peak is a spectacular part of the view from State Route 227 in Lamoille Valley, rising over above the valley floor at Lamoille. It rises from the head of Seitz Canyon, and is part of the west wall of Right Fork Canyon (a branch of Lamoille Canyon). The summit is a high glacial horn A pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn in extreme cases, is an angular, sharply pointed mountain peak which results from the cirque erosion due to multiple glaciers diverging from a central point. Pyramidal peaks are often examples o ..., located about southeast of the community of Elko within the Ruby Mountains Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. References Ruby Mountains Mountains of Elko County, Nevada Mountains of Nevada Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest< ...
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Mount Gilbert (British Columbia)
Mount Gilbert, 3124 m (10249 ft) prominence: 484 m, is a mountain in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It is located south of the confluence of the Bishop and Southgate Rivers and to the west of the Compton Névé, a large icefield, and to the south of the Homathko Icefield, another large icefield. The mountain was named in honour of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, a British navigator who was the half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh. Mount Raleigh is nearby and in prominence-terms is Mount Gilbert's "line parent", with a prominence of 484 m. References {{coord, 50, 51, 43, N, 124, 16, 21, W, display=title Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert may refer to: People and fictional characters * Gilbert (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Gilbert (surname), including a list of people Places Australia * Gilbert River (Queensland) * Gilbert River (South ... Range 1 Coast Land District ...
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Mount Gilbert (Northern Ireland)
Mount Gilbert can refer to: * Mount Gilbert (Alaska) in Alaska, USA * Mount Gilbert (Chugach Mountains) in Alaska, USA * Mount Gilbert (Antarctica) * Mount Gilbert (California) in California, USA * Mount Gilbert (Nevada) in Nevada, USA * Mount Gilbert (British Columbia), in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains * Mount Gilbert (Northern Ireland), near Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo ...
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