The Cocked Hat
| The Cocked Hat | ||
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| height | 900 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cocked Hat (English for Der Zweispitz ) is a 900 m high and cliff-like mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it rises 5.5 km southwest of the Lizards Foot .
Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963), Frank Debenham , Tryggve Gran and Robert Forde (1875-1959) discovered him while exploring the Wilson Piedmont Glacier during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and gave the mountain its descriptive name.
Web links
- The Cocked Hat in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Cocked Hat on geographic.org