Mount Umbriel is a

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, rising to about 1,500 m, overlooking the head of Venus Glacier on the east coast of

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

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, with the east face of the mountain overlooking the

George VI Ice Shelf The George VI Ice Shelf () is an extensive ice shelf that occupies George VI Sound which separates Alexander Island from Palmer Land in Antarctica. The ice shelf extends from Ronne Entrance, at the southwest end of the sound, to Niznik Island ...

that occupies

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. The mountain was first mapped by Searle of the

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in 1960, from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947–48. Named by the

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from association with nearby

Uranus Glacier Uranus Glacier () is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, long and wide at its mouth, flowing east into George VI Sound immediately south of Fossil Bluff. Along the south face of the glacier is an east–west escarpment c ...

, Umbriel being one of the

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s of the planet

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, the seventh planet of the

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* Mountains of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub

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