Mount Gavilán
| Mount Gavilán | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Monte Gavilán (in Argentina Monte Biedma ) is a mountain on the Nordenskjöld coast of the Graham country in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 12 km north-northeast of Mount Brading and about 14 km north of the northern foothill of Larsen Inlet .
Chilean scientists named it after Daniel Gavilán Garrido of the Fuerza Aérea de Chile , who had belonged to the crew of the Angamos on the 1st Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946-1947). The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Gavilán, Monte in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)