Brassiere Hills

The Brassiere Hills are a pair of summits in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It is located at the northern end of Taku Inlet, 4.5mi north of Taku Point and 18mi northeast of the city of Juneau. The peaks are 2405ft and 2360ft high and a stream named Zipper Creek runs between them.Ice thickness studies of Taku Glacier were conducted near the hills in 1989, 1990, and 1993.Nancy Bartley of The Seattle Times attributes the naming to photographer Austin Post.The name was noted by the United States Geological Survey on 1948 and 1962 topographical maps of the Juneau area, but it was removed prior to the latter edition's publication. It later appeared on a 1997 USGS map. It was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on March 31, 1981.