Name details

Cook Island

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 974

Feature type: Island

Origin

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

Narrative

The largest of a group of small islands west of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Oksxy by Norwegian cartographers.

Named For

Named after Bruce Cook, Geophysicist at Mawson in 1958, who assisted Surveyor Graham Knuckey with the astrofix on Knuckey Island in February 1958.

Location

Latitude:
69° 24' 09.0" S
-69.40250°
Accurate to 25m
Longitude:
76° 00' 50.0" E
76.01389°
Accurate to 25m
Altitude:
53 m
Accurate to 10m

Images


©Adam Christensen 2009
Catalogue id
IA21766
Caption
Cook Island, Larsemann Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 1800 feet. Looking Northwest.
Photographer
Christensen, Adam

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Larsemann Hills 1:25000 Topographic GIS Dataset
Source Identifier:
Lars25K
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
29-Sep-1988

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