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{{Infobox island
|name=Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands
|territory=South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
|group=South Sandwich Islands
|picture=South sandwich islands.png
|picture caption=South Sandwich Islands
|map=Thule-Location.JPG
|map caption=Location of Cook Island
|longitude=-59.45
|latitude=-27.1667
|highest point=[[Mount Harmer]], 3,658 feet
|population=Uninhabited
|}}
'''Cook Island''' is the central and largest island of [[Southern Thule]], part of the [[South Sandwich Islands]] in the far south [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775. The island was named for Cook by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, which explored the South Sandwich Islands in 1819–20.

Cook Island measures about 4 miles by 2 miles wide. It is heavily glaciated and uninhabited. Its highest peak, [[Mount Harmer]], rises to 3,658 feet above sea level. 

==References==
*{{cite book | last=LeMasurier | first=W. E. | coauthors=Thomson, J. W. (eds.) | title=Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans | publisher=American Geophysical Union | date=1990 | isbn=0-87590-172-7 | page=512 pp }}

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