Cooper-Nunatak
| Cooper-Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Cooper Nunatak is a large and around 1500 m high nunatak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 8 km north of Diamond Hill on the east side of the Brown Hills in the Cook Mountains .
Participants in a 1962-1963 campaign of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions mapped it. It is named after the geologist Roger A. Cooper, who took part in the campaign for this series of expeditions, which lasted from 1960 to 1961.
Web links
- Cooper Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cooper Nunatak on geographic.org (English)