Mount Bronk

Mount Bronk
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height	3530 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Hughes Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 84 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Bronk is a snowy and 3530 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Hughes Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 6 km northeast of Mount Waterman .

The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered and photographed him during a reconnaissance flight on November 18, 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition, the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). The American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1987) took from 1957 to 1958 surveys of the mountain before and named it after Detlev Bronk Wulf (1897-1975), President of the National Academy of Sciences that the research activities in Antarctica as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958) .

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