Browns Mountain, also sometimes spelt Brown's Mountain, is a small submarine mountain – a
seamount
A seamount is a large geologic landform that rises from the ocean floor that does not reach to the water's surface (sea level), and thus is not an island, islet or cliff-rock. Seamounts are typically formed from extinct volcanoes that rise abru ...
– lying in the south-western
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
38 km off the coast of
New South Wales
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, Australia, about 50 km east of the city of
Sydney
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. The waters around the seamount are about 600 m in depth, while the mountain itself rises some 133 m above the sea floor. It is a popular site for commercial and recreational fishing.
It got its name from Ernie Brown, the popular local Sydney fisherman who discovered it.
References
Seamounts of the Pacific Ocean
Fishing in Australia
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