Brown peaks

This article describes the mountain range in the Transantarctic Mountains. For the Antarctic mountain group of the same name in Australia in the Framnes Mountains, see Sørtindane .

Brown peaks
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
part of	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 35 ′  S , 158 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 85 ° 35 ′  S , 158 ° 5 ′  W

The Brown Peaks are a series of low mountains in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . They rise from a 6 km long ridge 11 km east of Robinson Bluff on the east side of the Amundsen Glacier .

Surveys and aerial photographs by the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) served as an initial rough mapping. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain range in 1967 after Kenneth R. Brown, a biologist at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1964.

Web links

• Brown peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Brown Peaks on geographic.org (English)