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Mount Umbriel
Mount
Umbriel
is a
peak
, rising to about
1,500 m
, overlooking the head of
Venus Glacier
on the
east coast
of
Alexander Island
,
Antarctica
, with the
east
face
of the mountain overlooking the
George VI Ice Shelf
that occupies
George VI Sound
. The mountain was first mapped by Searle of the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
in
1960
, from
air
photos taken by the
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
in 1947–48. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
from
association
with
nearby
Uranus Glacier
, Umbriel being one of the
satellites
of the
planet
Uranus
, the
seventh planet
of
the Solar System
.