Brough Nunatak
| Brough Nunatak | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Brough Nunatak is a nunatak in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 6 km west-southwest of Boney Point in the northwest section of the Evans-Piedmont Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 2000 after the USS Brough , which at 60 ° 0 ' S , 170 ° 0' O as a weather station during the second to fourth Operation Deep Freeze served in the years 1956-1959.
Web links
- Brough Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brough Nunatak on geographic.org (English)