Mount Cohen
| Mount Cohen | ||
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| height | 1765 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Cohen is a 1765 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises 10 km southwest of Mount Betty in the Herbert Range in the Queen Maud Mountains .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him in November 1929 during his several flights over the area on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). Byrd named the mountain after the US film producer Emanuel Cohen (1892-1977) from Paramount Pictures , who helped put together the footage of the research trip.
Web links
- Mount Cohen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cohen on geographic.org (English)