The Brown Peaks () are a series of low peaks surmounting a ridge long, standing east of
Robinson Bluff
Quarles Range () is a high and rugged range of the Queen Maud Mountains, extending from the polar plateau between Cooper Glacier and Bowman Glacier and terminating near the edge of Ross Ice Shelf.
Discovery and naming
Peaks in the range were fi ...
at the east side of
Amundsen Glacier. First roughly mapped from ground surveys and from air photos by the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, they were named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
for
Kenneth R. Brown
Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a by ...
, a biologist with the
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...
winter party of 1964.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Amundsen Coast
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