Cooke Bluff
| Cooke Bluff | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 13 ′ S , 161 ° 45 ′ E | |
The Cooke Bluff is a massive and icy rock cliff in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It looms south of the Rampart Ridge between the Ruecroft Glacier and the Rutgers Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliff in 1994 after William B. Cooke, a cartographer in the United States Geological Survey's Department of Specialty Maps from 1951 to 1987, who made significant contributions to mapping Antarctica .
Web links
- Cooke Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cooke Bluff on geographic.org (English)