Mount Gunter () is a conspicuous mountain, high, with precipitous black rock cliffs on its west side, rising at the south side of Hariot Glacier, east of

Briggs Peak Briggs Peak () is an isolated, conical mountain, high, on the northeast side of the Wordie Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. It was first roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1936–37, and photographed by the Ronne Antarctic Resea ...

, on the west side of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín 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 Antarctic ...

. It was first roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936–37, and was photographed by 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 ( trimetrogon air photography). It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1958, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Edmund Gunter, an English mathematician whose "line of numbers" (1617) was the first step toward a slide rule; in 1620 he published tables of logarithms, sines and tangents, which revolutionized navigation.

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