Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Cook Mountains (AUS) | 79° 25' 00.1" S | 158° 00' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1504
Place ID: 2937
Mountains bounded by the Mulock Glacier in the north and the Darwin Glacier in the south. These mountains were explored by the NZ Geological Expedition (1964-65). Named after Captain James Cook, RN, leader of a British expedition (1772-75), which circumnavigated the world in a high southern latitude; crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time and dispelled the idea of a southern continent extending to temperate latitudes. |
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| Cook Mountains (NZL) | 79° 25' 00.0" S | 158° 00' 00.0" E | Range |
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Name ID: 140376
Place ID: 2937
Mountains bounded by the Mulock Glacier in the north and the Darwin Glacier in the south, at Hillary Coast. |
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| Cook Mountains (USA) | 79° 25' 00.0" S | 158° 00' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123776
Place ID: 2937
The group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin Glaciers. Parts of the group were first viewed from the Ross Ice Shelf by the BrNAE (1901-04). Additional portions of these mountains were mapped by a N.Z. party of the CTAE (1956-58), and they were completely mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by the NZ-APC for Capt. James Cook. |
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