Cochran Peak

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Cochran peak is a sharp mountain peak in the southern part of the Gifford peaks that lie on the western edge of the Heritage Range to the West Antarctic Ellsworthgebirge.

The mountain was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the compilation of Ellsworthgebirges in the years 1961-1966 through site surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named Cochran peak after Henry B. Cochran. This worked in 1958 as a meteorologist in the central weather station of the various Antarctic Forschungspexpeditionen the International Geophysical Year in the American research base Little America V.