Mount Browning

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Mount Browning
height 760  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Northern Foothills , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 74 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 74 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Browning (Antarctica)
Mount Browning
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Browning is a 760  m high mountain on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Northern Foothills, it towers across the mouth of the Boomerang Glacier .

Participants in the Nimrod Expedition (1907–1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton roughly mapped the mountain. The northern group of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott carried out a more detailed exploration and mapping . Namesake is Petty Officer Frank Vernon Browning (1882–1930), a member of the Northern Group.

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