Mount Cope () is a bluff-type mountain on the east side of
Separation Range,
Queen Maud Mountains. It overlooks the west side of
Canyon Glacier
Canyon Glacier () is a narrow glacier, long, flowing to the Ross Ice Shelf. It drains the northwest slopes of Mount Wexler and moves northward between steep canyon walls of the Separation Range and Hughes Range to join the ice shelf immediately ...
northwest of
Nadeau Bluff. It was mapped by the
United States Geological Survey from surveys and from
U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1958–63, and named by the
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.
History
The committee was established ...
for Lieutenant
Ronald P. Cope, U.S. Navy, Officer-in-Charge of the nuclear power plant at
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a United States Antarctic research station on the south tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the Unit ...
, 1963.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Dufek Coast
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