Name details

Mount Cook

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 1503

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

The highest peak of the main massif of the Leckie Range. Approximately plotted by Norwegian cartographers. Photographed in 1956 by ANARE aircraft. First visited in December, 1958, by an ANARE sledging party led by G A Knuckey, who fixed its position. Named after B G Cook, geophysicist at Mawson in 1958.

Named For

B G Cook, geophysicist at Mawson in 1958

Location

Latitude:
67° 55' 00.1" S
-67.91670°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
56° 31' 59.9" E
56.53330°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
22-Jul-1959

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