Mount Hook

Mount Hook
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height	1605 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 19 ′ 59 ″ S , 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 83 ° 19 ′ 59 ″ S , 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W.
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Hook is a 1605 m high, snow-covered and mountain-like elevation in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 8 km southeast of Sorna Bluff on the east side of the Saratoga Table .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1979 after Lieutenant Richard M. Hook of the US Navy, who was a medical officer at Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1969 .

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