Mount Gimber
| Mount Gimber | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , Ellsworthland | |
| Mountains | Walker Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 102 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Gimber is an icy mountain in the far west of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Walker Mountains it rises 800 m southeast of Landfall Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Harry Meeker Stuart Gimber (1909-1999), captain of the destroyer USS Brownson in Operation Highjump (1946-1947) of the United States Navy .
Web links
- Mount Gimber in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gimber on geographic.org (English)