Coordinates: 64°24′S 62°24′W / 64.400°S 62.400°W / -64.400; -62.400

Cook Summit

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Cook Summit (Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).) is the highest peak in the Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island, rising to 1,590 metres (5,220 ft) between Galen Peak and Celsus Peak. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1986 after Dr. Frederick A. Cook, an American polar explorer and surgeon with the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, led by Lieutenant Adrien de Gerlache.

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