Mount Brown (Antarctica)
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Mount Brown () 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 incorporates text from Mount Brown (Antarctica), in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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