Mount Bronk () is a snow-covered mountain in the Hughes Range, a mountain range located in south-central

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...

. With an altitude of , Mount Bronk represents one of six prominent summits throughout the Hughes Range. Mount Bronk was discovered and photographed by

R. Admiral Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, ...

on the baselaying flight of November 18, 1929. From 1957 to 1958, it was surveyed by

A.P. Crary Albert Paddock Crary (July 25, 1911 – October 29, 1987), was a pioneer polar geophysics, geophysicist and glaciology, glaciologist. He was the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on M ...

who named the mount after

Detlev W. Bronk Detlev Wulf Bronk (August 13, 1897 – November 17, 1975) was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator. He is credited with establishing biophysics as a recognized discipline. Bronk served as president of Johns Hopkins Universi ...

, then-president of the

U.S. National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Natio ...

which helped sponsored Antarctic exploratory operations from 1957 to 1958.

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Mountains of the Ross Dependency Dufek Coast {{DufekCoast-geo-stub