Mount Brooke

Mount Brooke (76°49′S 159°54′E) is a large isolated mountain in Antarctica, 2,675 metres (8,776 ft) high, standing 17 nautical miles (31 km) northwest of Mount Gran and dominating the area near the heads of Mackay Glacier and Mawson Glacier. It was named for Lieutenant Commander F.R. Brooke, Royal Navy, leader of the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58.[1]

Not to be confused with Mount Brooker.

There is another Mount Brooke (61.495°N 140.9583333°W / 61.495; -140.9583333) in the Yukon. It was named in 1918 in honour of Billy Brooke, a Canadian grand-nephew of Rajah Charles Brooke via his son Esca, who had died as a prisoner of war in Germany 1917.[2]

References
  1. "Brooke, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  2. | Canadian Great War Project

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