Brown Mountain (South Georgia)
| Brown Mountain | ||
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| height | 330 m | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 17 ′ 47 " S , 36 ° 30 ′ 17" W | |
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The Brown Mountain is a rounded and 330 m high hill on South Georgia . It rises 1.2 km south of the whaling station at Grytviken on the west bank of Cumberland East Bay .
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld were the first to take measurements of the mountain. The German zoologist and doctor August Emil Alfred Szielasko (1864–1928), who mapped the area around the mountain when visiting South Georgia in 1906, named it Braun Berg . The English language form was established in 1954 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee .
Web links
- Brown Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brown Mountain on geographic.org