Mount Bruns

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Mount Bruns
height 910  m
location Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 84 ° 28 ′ 59 ″  S , 64 ° 22 ′ 59 ″  W Coordinates: 84 ° 28 ′ 59 ″  S , 64 ° 22 ′ 59 ″  W
Mount Bruns (Antarctica)
Mount Bruns

Mount Bruns is a 910  m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the northern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains it rises 6 km north of Mount Lowry in the Anderson Hills .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after John E. Bruns, a glaciologist at Palmer Station in the Antarctic winter of 1967.

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