Cook Summit
| Cook Summit | ||
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| height | 1590 m | |
| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Solvay Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 24 ′ 1 ″ S , 62 ° 24 ′ 27 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Cook Summit is a 1590 m high mountain on the Brabant Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is the highest point in the Solvay Mountains and looms between Galen Peak and Celsus Peak .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1986 after the US polar explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940), participant of the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) under the direction of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery .
Web links
- Cook Summit in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cook Summit on geographic.org (English)