Cook Mountains

The Cook Mountains is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. ^[1]

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1. 40 relations: Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, Antarctic ice sheet, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Britannia Range (Antarctica), Butcher Ridge, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Byrd Station, Carlyon Glacier, Churchill Mountains, Cirque, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Conway Range, Darwin Glacier (Antarctica), Darwin Mountains, David H. Bromwich, Diamond Hill, Ellsworth Mountains, Fault Bluff, Finger Ridges, Geographic Names Information System, Hugh Robert Mill, Ice cap, James Cook, McMurdo Dry Valleys, McMurdo Sound, Mountain, Mulock Glacier, Nunatak, Ohio State University, Ozone depletion, Reeves Plateau, Robert Falcon Scott, Ross Ice Shelf, South Pole, Stony Brook University, Tellurometer, Transantarctic Mountains, United States Geological Survey, Worcester Range.

2. Hillary Coast
3. Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency
4. Oates Land

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.

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Antarctic ice sheet

The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of and an average thickness of over.

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Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Britannia Range (Antarctica)

The Britannia Range is a range of mountains bounded by the Hatherton Glacier and Darwin Glacier on the north and the Byrd Glacier on the south, westward of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Cook Mountains and Britannia Range (Antarctica) are Hillary Coast and mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency.

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Butcher Ridge

Butcher Ridge is a large, mainly ice-free ridge near the polar plateau in the west part of the Cook Mountains.

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Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center

The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC) is a polar, alpine, and climate research center at Ohio State University founded in 1960.

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Byrd Station

The Byrd Station is a former research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by U.S. Navy Seabees during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica.

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Carlyon Glacier

Carlyon Glacier is a large glacier which flows east-southeast from the névé east of Mill Mountain to the Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Murray.

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Churchill Mountains

The Churchill Mountains is a major range of mountains and associated elevations bordering the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf, between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier. Cook Mountains and Churchill Mountains are mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency.

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Cirque

A (from the Latin word) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.

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Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole.

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Conway Range

Conway Range is a mountain range in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica, on the west edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.

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Darwin Glacier (Antarctica)

The Darwin Glacier is a large glacier in Antarctica.

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Darwin Mountains

The Darwin Mountains are a group of mountains between the Darwin Glacier and Hatherton Glacier in Antarctica.

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David H. Bromwich

David H. Bromwich is a member of the Byrd Polar Research Center and a professor at the Department of Geography, Ohio State University.

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Diamond Hill

Diamond Hill is a hill in the east of Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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Ellsworth Mountains

The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land.

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Fault Bluff

Fault Bluff is a high rock bluff located about northeast of Mount Longhurst in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica.

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Finger Ridges

The Finger Ridges are several mainly ice-free ridges and spurs extending over a distance of about, east–west, in the northwestern part of the Cook Mountains in Antarctica.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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Hugh Robert Mill

Hugh Robert Mill (28 May 1861 – 5 April 1950) was a British geographer and meteorologist who was influential in the reform of geography teaching, and in the development of meteorology as a science.

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Ice cap

In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area).

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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McMurdo Dry Valleys

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound.

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McMurdo Sound

The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately from the South Pole.

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Mountain

A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.

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Mulock Glacier

The Mulock Glacier is a large, heavily crevassed glacier which flows into the Ross Ice Shelf south of the Skelton Glacier in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica.

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Nunatak

A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Ozone depletion

Ozone depletion consists of two related events observed since the late 1970s: a steady lowering of about four percent in the total amount of ozone in Earth's atmosphere, and a much larger springtime decrease in stratospheric ozone (the ozone layer) around Earth's polar regions.

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Reeves Plateau

Reeves Plateau is an inclined ice-covered plateau, 8 nautical miles (15 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, located north of Bowling Green Plateau and west of Reeves Bluffs in the Cook Mountains.

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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–04 and the ''Terra Nova'' expedition of 1910–13.

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Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).

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South Pole

The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.

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Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York.

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Tellurometer

The tellurometer was the first successful microwave electronic distance measurement equipment.

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Transantarctic Mountains

The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.

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Worcester Range

The Worcester Range is a high coastal range, about long, in Antarctica. Cook Mountains and Worcester Range are Hillary Coast and mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency.

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See also

Hillary Coast

• Anniversary Bluff
• Barne Inlet
• Birthday Bluffs
• Britannia Range (Antarctica)
• Brosnahan Island
• Cape Kerr
• Cook Mountains
• Cornwell Corner
• Crary Knoll
• Dunbar Head
• Eastface Nunatak
• Hillary Coast
• Hoffman Point (Antarctica)
• Kerr Inlet
• Minna Bluff
• Mount Morning
• Mount Rees (Victoria Land)
• Schulz Crag
• Snow Petrel Peak
• Stepaside Knoll
• Windscoop Bluff
• Worcester Range

Mountain ranges of the Ross Dependency

• Adams Mountains
• Barton Mountains
• Britannia Range (Antarctica)
• Carnegie Range
• Churchill Mountains
• Cook Mountains
• Darley Hills
• Duncan Mountains
• Erb Range
• Frigate Range
• Geologists Range
• Grosvenor Mountains
• Holland Range
• Holyoake Range
• Hughes Range (Antarctica)
• Lyttelton Range
• Marshall Mountains
• Moore Mountains
• Nash Range
• Prince Olav Mountains
• Queen Alexandra Range
• Queen Elizabeth Range (Antarctica)
• Queen Maud Mountains
• Rawson Mountains (Antarctica)
• Rockefeller Mountains
• Surveyors Range
• Worcester Range

Oates Land

• Cook Mountains
• Gatson Ridge
• Hamner Nunatak
• Nimrod Glacier
• Oates Land
• Usarp Mountains

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Mountains

Also known as Bromwich Terrace, Cheney Bluff, Cooper Nunatak, DeZafra Ridge, Diamond Hill (Antarctica), Dot Peak, Festive Plateau, Finn Spur, Fontaine Bluff, Harper Ridge, Harvey Peak, Henry Mesa, Kanak Peak, Longhurst Plateau, Mesa, Henry, Mill Mountain, Mount Ayres, Mount Gudmundson, Mount Hughes, Mount Longburst, Mount Longhurst, Mulgrew Nunatak, Peter Crest, Reeves Bluffs, Schoonmaker Ridge, Seay Peak, Soyuz-13 Rock, Soyuz-18 Rock, Starbuck Cirque.

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