Cooke Crags
| Cooke Crags | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 83 ° 9 ′ S , 50 ° 39 ′ W | |
The Cooke Crags are around 1,500 m high cliffs in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, they rise from an ice slope between Henderson Bluff and Mount Lechner on the west side of the Lexington Table .
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped this area using surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1956 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the cliffs in 1979 after USGS geophysicist James E. Cook, who lived between 1978 and 1979 worked in the Forrestal Range and in the Dufek Massif .
Web links
- Cooke Crags in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cooke Crags on geographic.org (English)