Mount Bresnahan

Mount Bresnahan

Mount Bresnahan (71°48′S 161°28′E / 71.8°S 161.467°E / -71.8; 161.467) is a flat-topped, mainly ice-free mountain, 1,630 metres (5,350 ft) high, situated along the east side of the Helliwell Hills, 6 miles (10 km) north-northeast of Mount Van der Hoeven. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–63, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after David M. Bresnahan, United States Antarctic Research Program biologist at McMurdo Station, 1967–68 and 1968–69, and on the staff of the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, from 1970.

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