Gilbert, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Gilbert (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to 1420m between Airy Glacier and Seller Glacier, Fallières Coast, was photographed from the air by BGLE, 1 February 1937, and by RARE, 27 November 1947; surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1958; in association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after William Gilbert (1540-1603), English physician whose work De magnete, magneticisque corporibus... (London, 1600) laid the foundation for an understanding of terrestrial magnetism and the variation of the compass (APC, 1962, p.14; DOS 610 sheet W 69 66, 1963).
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