- Mount Gunter
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Mount Gunter (68°59′S 66°34′W / 68.983°S 66.567°W) is a conspicuous mountain (1,970 m) with precipitous black rock cliffs on its west side, rising at the south side of Hariot Glacier, 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of Briggs Peak, on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. First roughly surveyed by British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) in 1936-37. Photographed by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) in November 1947 (trimetrogon air photography). Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), English mathematician whose "line of numbers" (1617) was the first step toward a slide rule; in 1620 he published tables of logarithm sines and tangents which revolutionized navigation.
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