Mount Browning
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Mount Browning is a mountain, 760 metre high, which rises opposite the terminus of Boomerang Glacier
Boomerang Glacier
Boomerang Glacier is a gently curving glacier, long, draining southward from Mount Dickason in the Deep Freeze Range to enter Browning Pass, at the north side of Nansen Ice Sheet in Victoria Land. It was discovered by the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and so named...

 in the Northern Foothills
Northern Foothills
Northern Foothills is a line of coastal hills on the west side of Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, lying southward of Browning Pass and forming a peninsular continuation of the Deep Freeze Range...

, on the coast of Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. It was first roughly mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09. This area was explored and mapped in greater detail by the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and the mountain named for Petty Officer Frank V. Browning, Royal Navy
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

, a member of the Northern Party.
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