Brown Hills
The Brown Hills are a group of mainly snow-free hills in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica. Brown Hills has an elevation of 1,078 metres.Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pleasant Plateau and Bowling Green Plateau.
Pleasant Plateau
Locality
Pleasant Plateau is a small, somewhat isolated ice-free plateau located close west of Blank Peaks and Foggydog Glacier in the Brown Hills. Explored by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, who so named it because of the agreeable weather encountered there on each occasion the area was visited.
Bowling Green Plateau
Locality
Bowling Green Plateau is a small but prominent ice-covered plateau at the north side of the Brown Hills in the Cook Mountains in Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition; Professor Charles C. Bowling Green Plateau is situated 7 km north of Brown Hills.
Brown Hills
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,078 metres
- Description: hills in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-79.76667° or 79° 46′ southLongitude
158.55° or 158° 33′ eastElevation
1,078 metres (3,537 feet)Open location code
2RGW6HM2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 11109015817OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Brown Hills” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brown Hills”
- Chinese: “布朗山”
- Chinese: “布朗山脈”
- Dutch: “Brown Hills”
- German: “Brown Hills”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brown Hills”
- Swedish: “Brown Hills”
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