Cook Mountains
| Cook Mountains | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 25 ′ S , 158 ° 0 ′ E | |
 1963 map showing the Cook Mountains and Darwin Mountains |
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The Cook Mountains are a group of mountain peaks in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . They loom between the Mulock and Darwin glaciers .
They were first sighted by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) from the Ross Ice Shelf . However, the Cook Mountains were first mapped by the New Zealand team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) and finally by the United States Geological Survey using aerial photographs between 1959 and 1963. They were named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the navigator and explorer James Cook (1728–1779).
Web links
- Cook Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cook Mountains on geographic.org (English)