Mount Cole is a mountain over 1400 metres (4,593.2 ft) high, on the west side of Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from 8 to 16 km wide, descending from the polar plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs. The Roberts Massif...

, between the mouths of Forman Glacier

Forman Glacier

Forman Glacier is a tributary glacier, 4 nautical miles long, flowing east to enter Shackleton Glacier between Mount Franke and Mount Cole, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after John H. Forman, Construction Mechanic, U.S. Navy, a member of the McMurdo...

 and Gerasimou Glacier

Gerasimou Glacier

Gerasimou Glacier is a steep-walled tributary glacier, 5 mi long, entering the W side of Shackleton Glacier opposite Gemini Nunataks, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Named by the Texas Tech-Shackleton Glacier Party, 1964-65, for Helen Gerasimou, polar personnel specialist with the Office of Antarctic...

, in the Queen Maud Mountains

Queen Maud Mountains

The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...

. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 for Nelson R. Cole, Aviation Machinist's Mate

Aviation Machinist's Mate

Aviation Machinist's Mate is a United States Navy occupational rating.Aviation Machinist's Mates maintain aircraft engines and their related systems, including the induction, cooling, fuel, oil, compression, combustion, turbine, gas turbine compressor, exhaust and propeller systems; preflight...

 with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6

VX-6

Air Development Squadron Six was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...

, who lost his life in a helicopter crash in the McMurdo Sound

McMurdo Sound

The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km long and wide. The sound opens into the Ross Sea to the north. The Royal Society Range rises from sea level to 13,205 feet on the western shoreline. The nearby McMurdo Ice Shelf scribes McMurdo Sound's southern boundary...

area in July 1957.