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Bronk, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Bronk (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain (2a)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A snow-covered mountain top about 12 miles north-north-east of Mt Kaplan, in the Hughes Range, rising to an elevation of about 3600m. Discovered and photographed by Rear Admiral R E Byrd on the Baselaying Flight of 18 November, 1929, and surveyed by A P Crary in 1957-58. Named by the latter for Dr Detlev W Bronk, President of the US National Academy of the Sciences, which actively supported Antarctic operations during the 1957-59 IGY period.
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