Mount Solvay (72°34′S 31°23′E / 72.567°S 31.383°E / -72.567; 31.383) is a mountain, 2,560 m, close north of Mount Gillet in the Belgica Mountains. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1957–58, under Gaston de Gerlache, who named it for Ernest John Solvay, a patron of the expedition.

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