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Mount Bradshaw
Mount Bradshaw is located in Antarctica
Mount Bradshaw
Mount Bradshaw
Location in Antarctica
Highest point
Elevation 2,240 m (7,350 ft)
Geography
Location Pennell Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Parent range Bowers Mountains

Mount Bradshaw (71°28′S 163°52′E / 71.467°S 163.867°E / -71.467; 163.867) is a mountain peak, 2,240 metres (7,350 ft) high, at the northeast side of the névé of Leap Year Glacier, 4 nautical miles (7 km) northwest of Ian Peak, in the Bowers Mountains, a major mountain range situated within Victoria Land, Antarctica. The topographical feature was so named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1983 after J.D. Bradshaw, a geologist at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, who was a member of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program geological parties to the area, 1974–75 and 1981–82. The mountain lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

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