Mount Gunter
| Mount Gunter | ||
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| height | 1970 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 59 '33 " S , 66 ° 30' 40" W | |
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Mount Gunter is a 1970 m high and striking mountain with black cliffs on the west flank on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km east of Briggs Peak on the west side of the Hariot Glacier .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out an initial rough survey between 1936 and 1937. Aerial photographs and Trimetrogon measurements were made in November 1947 with the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements on the ground in 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain on August 31, 1962 after the English mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), who in 1620 published a set of tables with logarithmic sine and tangent sets that revolutionized the methods of navigation.
Web links
- Mount Gunter in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gunter on geographic.org (English)