Mount Cook (Antarctica)
| Mount Cook | ||
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| height | 1900 m | |
| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Leckie Range | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Cook is a 1900 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Kempland and the highest point of the main massif in the Leckie Range .
Its approximate position is contained in maps that Norwegian cartographers produce for the Norwegian whaling fleet. A more precise mapping was carried out using aerial photographs taken during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). The Australian geodesist Graham Alexander Knuckey (1934–1969) paid a first visit to the mountain in 1956, who also finally fixed the position. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the geophysicist Bruce Graydon Cook (* 1932), who worked at Mawson Station in 1958 .
Web links
- Mount Cook in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cook on geographic.org (English)