SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Mount Brown

Brown, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Brown (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 1932
Name ID: 1648

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Mount Brown (Russia)
Mount Brown (United States of America)

Narrative

An elongated rock peak about 1,982 m above sea level which protrudes slightly above the plateau ice of Princess Elizabeth Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named after Lieut. (Junior Grade) E.P. Brown USN, who took part in Operation Highjump.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

68° 33' 57.6" S

-68.56600°

Accurate to 200m

Longitude:

86° 06' 02.8" E

86.10078°

Accurate to 200m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1997

Catalogue id: 2203A1
Caption: Main summit of Mount Brown looking south from north cliff
Photographer: Cianchi, Andrew (Andy)

Map

Source

Location Method:

Satellite Image

Source Name:

LIMA

Source Identifier:

Satellite image ( Satellite Image Catalogue - Scene Id E155_RGB_321_1X not in the Satellite Image Catalogue. )

Source Scale:

1:20000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

USGS

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

22-Oct-1968

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