Mount Noble

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Mount Noble ( 60°39′S45°16′W / 60.650°S 45.267°W / -60.650; -45.267 Coordinates: 60°39′S45°16′W / 60.650°S 45.267°W / -60.650; -45.267 ) is a mountain, 1,165 m, standing at the north side of Roald Glacier 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) west of Gibbon Bay, in the east portion of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands. Presumably first sighted by Captain Nathaniel Palmer and Captain George Powell in 1821. The peak was named by James Weddell in 1823 for his friend James Noble (senator) of Edinburgh, orientalist.

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Roald Glacier is a glacier which flows from the vicinity of Mount Noble and Mount Sladen eastward into Gibbon Bay, on the east coast of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands. Chartered and named by the Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sorle in the period 1912-15. Surveyed in 1948-49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).

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