Brown Nunatakker
| Brown Nunatakker | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 37 ′ S , 53 ° 28 ′ W | |
The Brown Nunatakker are three up to 755 m high nunatakker in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . They rise 1.5 km northwest of Walker Peak on the southwestern foothills of the Dufek massif in the Pensacola Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped them on the basis of their own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1968 after the American ionospheric researcher John B. Brown (1926-2006), the 1957 was part of the winter team at Ellsworth Station .
Web links
- Brown nunataks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brown Nunataks on geographic.org (English)