Mount Kopere
| Mount Kopere | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Kopere is a mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Churchill Mountains, it rises 2.5 km northwest of Lyttelton Peak in the center of the Cobham Range .
Participants in the 1964-1965 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition to explore the Holyoake Range , the Cobham Range and the Queen Elizabeth Range named the mountain after the Māori word for " arrow " . It is named after the cross-sectional shape of the mountain, which is reminiscent of an arrowhead.
Web links
- Mount Kopere in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kopere on geographic.org (English)