Cook Island (Princess Elisabeth Land)
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 24 ′ S , 76 ° 1 ′ E | |
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Cook Island is an island in Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It is the largest of a group of islands west of the Stornes peninsula in the Larsemann Hills .
Norwegian cartographers used aerial photographs of the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 to map them and named them Oksøy . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1988 after the geophysicist Bruce Graydon Cook (* 1932), who worked at Mawson Station in 1958 .
Web links
- Cook Island in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Map of the ASMA-6 "Larsemann Hills" Special Administrative Region (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)