Mount Brøgger
Mount Brøgger | ||
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height | 1400 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 76 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Map sheet Convoy Range from 1988, Mount Brøgger and Mount Morrison and in the southeast corner |
Mount Brøgger is a 1400 m high mountain in the Prince Albert Mountains in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It flanks the north face of the Cleveland Glacier 6.5 km north of Referring Peak .
Participants in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) mapped the mountain and named it after the Norwegian mineralogist and geologist Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (1851-1940).
Web links
- Mount Brøgger in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Brøgger on geographic.org (English)