Name details

Mount Cocks

Cocks, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Cocks  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113018

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A mountain peak, 2290m high, lying west of Mount Morning and east of Skelton Glacier in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MH09

Named For

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition, BrNAE), 1901-04, who named this feature for Edward L Somers Cocks, at that time Treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society.

Location

Latitude:
78° 31' 10.8" S
-78.51967°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 30' 01.9" E
162.50053°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
2438 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
SETSM_WV02_20140112_103001002CD10F00_103001002A22E100_seg1_2m_v1.0_dem
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

250k Map height

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
1-Jan-1958

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