Mount Cooper (Mac Robertson Land)

Mount Cooper
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height	1524 m
location	Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Prince Charles Mountains
Coordinates	70 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 70 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Cooper is a 1,524 m high mountain with a small, cone-shaped peak in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises at the eastern end of the White Massif on the northern flank of the Nemesis Glacier .

The South Group led by the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924-2012) as part of the 1955 to 1956 campaign of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited him first in December 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him on July 22, 1957 after Noel Munro Cooper (* 1933), a participant in the research trip.

literature

John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 353-354 (English)