Mount Gilbert (Antarctica)
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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& ...
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 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 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 British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...
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.


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Mountains of Graham Land Fallières Coast {{FallièresCoast-geo-stub