Brown Peak

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Brown Peak
height 1705  m
location Sturge Island , Balleny Islands
Coordinates 67 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 67 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  E
Brown Peak (Antarctica)
Brown Peak

The Brown Peak is a 1705  m (according to other sources 1167  m , according to New Zealand representation 1524  m ) high stratovolcano in the north of Sturge Island in the group of the Balleny Islands .

The British whaling captain John Balleny discovered and named the mountain in February 1839. It is named after the merchant William Brown, who had supported Charles Enderby from the British whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons for bringing about Balleny's Antarctic voyage (1838–1839). The British polar explorer James Clark Ross sighted the mountain again in 1841 and inadvertently gave it a new name as Russell Peak , which, however, did not prevail over the first name.

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Individual evidence

  1. Global Volcanism Program, 2001. Report on Sturge Island (Antarctica) . In: Richard Wunderman (Ed.): Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network . tape 26 , no. 5 . Smithsonian Institution , May 2001, doi : 10.5479 / si.GVP.BGVN200105-390012 (English).
  2. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Volume 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 236 (English).