Brown Peak (sturge Island)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brown Peak is the highest point of the Balleny Islands. It is situated on the northern part of Sturge Island, near East Antarctica. A stratovolcano, Brown Peak is considered to belong to the Balleny Islands Ranges, a subset of the Wilkes Land Coast Ranges. These are in turn a subset of the East Antarctica Ranges.John Balleny discovered Brown Peak in February 1839, and named it for W. Brown, a merchant who provided financial support to the Enderby Brothers' expedition. In 1841, Captain James Clark Ross, who sighted the islands on his own expedition to Antarctica, gave it the name Russell Peak.