Mount Cortes

Mount Cortes (68°29′S 66°6′W / 68.483°S 66.1°W / -68.483; -66.1) is a mainly ice-covered mountain (1,490 m) on the southwest side of Gibbs Glacier in southern Graham Land. It is separated from Hadley Upland by a col 1,300 m high. Photographed by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), November 1947 (trimetrogon air photography). Surveyed from the ground by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), December 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Martin Cortes, Spanish author of Arte de Navegar (Sevilla, 1551), an important manual of navigation.

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