Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Brown Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Brown Ridge (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
running N from Nelson Peak, Washington Escarpment, Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, and rising to 1400m, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named after Robert D. Brown, geologist with the USGS field party in Patuxent Range, summer 1962-63 ([in 83 38'S 54 52'W] USBGN, 1965, p.94; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3).
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