Cooke Peak
| Cooke Peak | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Grove Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 74 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cooke Peak is an elongated mountain in the East Antarctic Princess Elizabeth Land , which is centrally surmounted by a summit. In the Grove Mountains it is 10 km northwest of the Bode-Nunatakker .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1965 after the Australian radiation physicist David J. Cooke, who carried out investigations into cosmic rays at Mawson Station in 1963 .
Web links
- Cooke Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cooke Peak on geographic.org (English)