
Mount Castro
(Fallières Coast)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 69° 20' 1" S 66° 2' 22" W
rising to 1630m, E of Forster Ice Piedmont, Fallières Coast, was photographed from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936-37 and by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in December 1947; surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island' in November 1958; in association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after Juan de Castro (1500-48), Portugese marine pilot who experimented on the variation of the magnetic compass, 1538-41.