Mount Cole
| Mount Cole | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Cole is a 1400 m high mountain in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises on the western flank of the Shackleton Glacier between the confluences of the Forman Glacier and the Gerasimou Glacier .
Participants in the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947) discovered and photographed him. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1962 after Nelson R. Cole (1934-1957), aircraft engineer with the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron, who died on July 12, 1957 in a helicopter crash on McMurdo Sound .
Web links
- Mount Cole in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cole on geographic.org (English)