Mount Cortés (68°29′S 66°6′W / 68.483°S 66.100°W / -68.483; -66.100) is a mainly ice-covered mountain, 1,490 metres (4,890 ft) high, on the southwest side of Gibbs Glacier in southern Graham Land. It is separated from Hadley Upland by a col 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) high. The mountain was photographed by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, November 1947 (trimetrogon air photography). It was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958 and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Martín Cortés de Albacar, the Spanish author of Arte de Navegar (Sevilla, 1551), an important manual of navigation.

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