Cochran Peak

Cochran Peak
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location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 38 ′ 30 ″ S , 84 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 79 ° 38 ′ 30 ″ S , 84 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W

Cochran Peak is a pointed mountain peak in the southern part of the Gifford Peaks , which lie on the western edge of the Heritage Range in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Mountains .

The mountain was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the survey of the Ellsworth Mountains in the years 1961–1966 through field surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named Cochran Peak after Henry B. Cochran. This worked in 1958 as a meteorologist in the central weather station of the various Antarctic expeditions of the International Geophysical Year in the American research base Little America V .

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