Mount Koob
| Mount Koob | ||
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| height | 1601 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mayer Crags , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 '0 " S , 169 ° 2' 0" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Koob is a 1601 m high mountain on the Dufek coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises as the highest point of the Mayer Crags 6 km northwest of Mount Ferguson .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after the American biologist Derry D. Koob (* 1933), who was active in two successive Antarctic summer campaigns between 1964 and 1966 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Station .
Web links
- Mount Koob in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Koob on geographic.org (English)