The gate was discovered by Irish-British hydrographer Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort in 1817. In his earlier career he was a pioneering oceanographer and hydrographer. It was named by the Soviet expedition after N.N. Matusevich, a Soviet hydrographer and surveyor. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer. Alexander Kolchak also accompanied the expedition as third naval officer and hydrographer. From 1773 Kitchin was royal hydrographer to the king. It also appears on a 1789 chart produced by British hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple. The sea is named after Sir Francis Beaufort, a hydrographer. Sir Percy Douglas and hydrographer of the Royal Navy. Mount Hudson is named after Francisco Hudson, a 19th-century Chilean Navy hydrographer. Kitchin was the head hydrographer for the King of England. His father was a hydrographer and applied physicist who served in the Indian Navy. In 1827 the special Office of the Hydrographer General was established. On the death of John Purdy, the hydrographer, in 1843, he took a leading position. While being a hydrographer, he joined the Eastern Sierra Ski Club.