Mount Brennan () is a dome-shaped

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

, high, which is the northernmost prominent summit in the Hughes Range, standing northeast of

Mount Cartwright Mount Cartwright () is a sharp peak, high, surmounting a north–south trending ridge north-northwest of Mount Waterman in the Hughes Range. It was discovered and photographed by the United States Antarctic Service on Flight C of February 29 � ...

. It was discovered and photographed by the

United States Antarctic Service The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...

on Flight C of February 29–March 1, 1940, and surveyed by A.P. Crary in 1957–58. It was named by Crary for Matthew J. Brennan, scientific station leader at

Ellsworth Station Ellsworth Scientific Station ( es, Estación Científica Ellsworth, or simply ''Estación Ellsworth'' or ''Base Ellsworth'') was a permanent, all year-round originally American, then Argentine Antarctic scientific research station named after Amer ...

, 1958.

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