Mount Breckinridge

Mount Breckinridge
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height	2050 m
location	Enderbyland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Napier Mountains
Coordinates	66 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 53 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 66 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 53 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Breckinridge is a 2050 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . In the Napier Mountains it rises 6 km south of Stor Hånakken .

Norwegian cartographers, who named it Langnuten (Norwegian for Langer Gipfel ), mapped it using aerial photographs taken as part of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Australian cartographers refined this mapping using aerial photographs made in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the American meteorologist John E. Breckinridge, who worked at Wilkes Station in 1961 .

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