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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| Mount Cook (AUS) | 67° 55' 00.1" S | 56° 31' 59.9" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1503
Place ID: 2945
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. |
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| Mount Cook (RUS) | 67° 55' 00.0" S | 56° 28' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 117534 Place ID: 2945 | |||
| Mount Cook (USA) | 67° 55' 00.0" S | 56° 28' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123784
Place ID: 2945
Mountain, 1,900 m, the highest point of the main massif of the Leckie Range. Approximately mapped by Norwegian cartographers on Norwegian whalers chart No. 3. Plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956, and first visited by G.A. Knuckey of ANARE in December 1956, when its position was fixed. Named by ANCA for B.G. Cook, geophysicist at Mawson station in 1958. |
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