Map of Thurston Island.
Satellite image of Thurston Island.

Mount Gimber (72°1′S 102°0′W / 72.017°S 102.000°W / -72.017; -102.000) is an ice-covered mountain 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southeast of Landfall Peak in the extreme west part of Thurston Island. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Commander H.M.S. Gimber, the captain of the destroyer Brownson in the Eastern Group of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47.[1]

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