Browns Butte
| Browns Butte | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Browns Butte is a rocky witnesses mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Dominion Range, it rises on the northern flank of the mouth of the Koski Glacier in the Mill Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1965 after Craig W. Brown, a meteorologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1963.
Web links
- Brown Butte in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Browns Butte on geographic.org (English)