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 Summit (GBR) | 64° 24' 00.0" S | 62° 24' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 108291
Place ID: 2941
highest peak (1590m) in Solvay Mountains (q.v.), Brabant Island, between Celsus Peak and Galen Peak, following its ascent by a JSEBI party, 4 December 1984, was named after Dr Frederick Arthur Cook (1865-1940), American polar explorer and surgeon with BeAE; surgeon on US Greenland expedition, 1891-92 (R. E. Peary); Leader, Mount McKinley expedition, 1906; Leader, North Polar expedition, 1907-09, on which he claimed to have reached the North Pole, 21 April 1908 (APC, 1986, p. 3). |
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| Cook Summit (USA) | 64° 24' 00.0" S | 62° 24' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 123780
Place ID: 2941
The highest peak in the Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island, rising to 1,590 m between Galen Peak and Celsus Peak. Named by the UK-APC in 1986 after Dr. Frederick A. Cook (1865-1940), American polar explorer and surgeon with the BelgAE, 1897-99, led by Lt. Adrien de Gerlache. |
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