Mount Cox

Mount Cox
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height	1960 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	71 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ O
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Cox is a 1960 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Usarp Mountains it rises 8 km northwest of the Killer Nunatak in the north-central part of the Emlen Peaks .

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after Allen N. Cox, pilot of a Douglas C-47 Skytrain R4D in support of the USGS surveying work in this area between 1962 and 1963.

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