Montaña Gillmore

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Montaña Gillmore
height 1472  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 66 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 63 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 63 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W
Montaña Gillmore (Antarctic Peninsula)
Montaña Gillmore

The Montaña Gillmore (in Argentina Montaña Olivero ) is a 1472  m high mountain on the Foyn coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km north of the mouth of the Morrison Glacier in the Cabinet Inlet .

Chilean scientists named him after Francisco Javier Gillmore Stock (1908–1990), titular bishop of the Armed Forces of Chile and participant in the 17th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1962–1963). The background of the Argentine naming is not known.

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