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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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Feature type: Island
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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 after Bruce Cook, Geophysicist at Mawson in 1958, who assisted Surveyor Graham Knuckey with the astrofix on Knuckey Island in February 1958.
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