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 (2a)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A mountain (1,420 m) on the divide between Airy Glacier and Seller Glacier, 5 mi NW of Mount Castro, in west-central Antarctic Peninsula. Photographed from the air by BGLE in Feb. 1937, and RARE in Nov. 1947. Surveyed from the ground by FIDS in Dec. 1958. Named by UK-APC for William Gilbert (1540-1603), 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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