Mount Brooke

Mount Brooke
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height	2675 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	76 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 76 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Brooke is a massive, isolated and 2,675 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 27 km northwest of Mount Gran and dominates the area between the head ends of the Mackay and Mawson glaciers .

The mountain is named after Lieutenant Commander Francis Richard Brooke (* 1926) of the Royal Navy , 1957 head of the northern New Zealand survey team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958).

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