Mount Cocks

Mount Cocks
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height	2440 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 78 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Cocks is a 2440 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises in the Royal Society Range at the head of the Koettlitz Glacier , where it forms part of the watershed between this and the lower Skelton Glacier .

He was discovered during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . It is named after Edward Lygon Somers Cocks (1858–1923), then honorary treasurer of the Royal Geographical Society .

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