Cook Mountains

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Group of mountains in Antarctica

title: "Cook Mountains" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountain-ranges-of-the-ross-dependency", "hillary-coast", "oates-land"] description: "Group of mountains in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountain-ranges-of-the-ross-dependency" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Mountains" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Group of mountains in Antarctica ::

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| name=ins | photo= | photo_caption= | country_type=Continent | country=Antarctica | region_type = | region= | parent= Transantarctic Mountains | border= | geology= | period= | orogeny= | length_km= | length_orientation= | width_km= | width_orientation= | highest= | elevation_m= | elevation_ref= | coordinates = | coordinates_ref= | range_coordinates = | range_coordinates_ref = | map=Antarctica | map_caption= The Cook Mountains () is a group of mountains bounded by the Mulock and Darwin glaciers in Antarctica. They are south of the Worcester Range and north of the Darwin Mountains and the Britannia Range.

Early exploration and naming

Parts of the group were first viewed from the Ross Ice Shelf by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) of 1901–04. Additional portions of these mountains were mapped by a New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1956–58, and they were completely mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and US Navy air photos, 1959–63. Named by the NZ-APC for Captain James Cook.

Location

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/C79197s1_Ant.Map_Carlyon_Glacier_Cook_Mountains.jpg" caption="Cook Mountains"] ::

The Cook Mountains are bounded by the Darwin Glacier to the south, which separates the range from the Darwin Mountains. The Ross Ice Shelf lies to the east and the Mulock Glacier to the north, which separates it from the Worcester Range. To the west is the Darwin Névé and the Antarctic ice sheet.

Glaciers

Glaciers leaving the mountains, clockwise from the north, are:

Heap Glacier

Main article: Heap Glacier

Bertoglio Glacier

Main article: Bertoglio Glacier

Carlyon Glacier

Main article: Carlyon Glacier

Diamond Glacier

Main article: Diamond Glacier (Antarctica)

Touchdown Glacier

Main article: Touchdown Glacier

McCleary Glacier

Main article: McCleary Glacier

Southeast massif features

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/C79197s1_Ant.Map_Carlyon_Glacier_Cook_Southeast_Massif.jpg" caption="Southeast massif. Diamond Hill furthest south, below the long ridge of [[Brown Hills]]."] ::

The southeast massif extends southwest from Carlyon Glacier to Darwin Glacier. The Ross Ice Shelf is to the East. Feature, from south to north, are:

Diamond Hill

Brown Hills

Main article: Brown Hills

Cooper Nunatak

Dot Peak

Schoonmaker Ridge

Soyuz-13 Rock

Reeves Bluffs

Cheney Bluff

Soyuz-18 Rock

Fontaine Bluff

Conway Range

Main article: Conway Range

Western Features

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/C79204s1_Ant.Map_Turnstile_Ridge_Cook.jpg" caption="70px]][[File:C79197s1 Ant.Map Carlyon Glacier Cook West.jpg"] ::

|caption=1:250,000 scale maps of western mountains|align=right}}

Festive Plateau

Mill Mountain

Bromwich Terrace

Starbuck Cirque

Felder Peak

() Felder Peak is a 1970 m peak between the terminus of McCleary Glacier and the west side of Starbuck Cirque.

Mount Ayres

Finn Spur

Butcher Ridge

Main article: Butcher Ridge

Fault Bluff

Main article: Fault Bluff

Finger Ridges

Main article: Finger Ridges

Mount Gudmundson

Harvey Peak

Mount Hughes

Mount Longhurst

Longhurst Plateau

DeZafra Ridge

Isolated features

Isolated features in or near the range include:

Henry Mesa

Kanak Peak

Mulgrew Nunatak

Peter Crest

The summit (1600 m high) of Mulgrew Nunatak in the Cook Mountains. Named after New Zealand Antarctic veteran Peter D. Mulgrew. He perished in the Air New Zealand DC10 scenic flight to Ross Island, Nov. 28, 1979, when the airplane crashed near Te Puna Roimata Peak (spring of tears peak) on the northeast slope of Mount Erebus, killing all 257 persons aboard.

Notes

References

Sources

  • {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18165 |name = Bromwich Terrace | accessdate = 2023-12-18}}
  • {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C79197s1_Ant.Map_Carlyon_Glacier.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-17 |publisher=USGS United States Geologic Survey |title=Carlyon Glacier |year=1960 |ref= }}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18217 |name = DeZafra Ridge | accessdate = 2023-12-18}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 4857 |name = Festive Plateau | accessdate = 2012-03-22}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18209 |name =Finn Spur | accessdate = 2023-12-18}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18046 |name =Peter Crest | accessdate = 2023-12-19}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18067 |name =Schoonmaker Ridge | accessdate = 2023-12-18}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18078 |name =Soyuz-13 Rock| accessdate = 2023-12-18}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18080 |name =Soyuz-18 Rock | accessdate = 2023-12-18}}
  • {{cite gnis2 | type = antarid | id = 18068 |name =Starbuck Cirque | accessdate = 2023-12-18}}
  • {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C79204s1_Ant.Map_Turnstile_Ridge.jpg |accessdate=2023-12-19 |title=Turnstyle Ridge |publisher=USGS |ref= }}

References

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