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Mount Breckinridge
Mount
Breckinridge
is a
mountain
, high,
standing
south
of
Stor Hånakken Mountain
in the
Napier Mountains
of
Enderby Land
, Antarctica. It was mapped by
Norwegian
cartographers
from
aerial photos
taken by the
Lars Christensen Expedition
of 1936–37, and was named "Langnuten". It was rephotographed by the
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
in
1956
and
renamed
by the
Antarctic Names Committee of Australia
for J.E. Breckinridge a
meteorologist
at
Wilkes Station
in
1961
.