Mount Brown (Antarctica)

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Mount Brown (68°18′S 86°25′E) is an elongated rock peak protruding slightly above the continental ice, situated 160 miles (260 km) east of the Vestfold Hills and 100 miles (160 km) south-southwest of Cape Penck.

Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47), and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant (j.g.) Eduardo P. Brown, U.S. Navy, photographic officer for the Western Group of the expedition.

This article is based on a United States Geological Survey gazetteer.