Cobb Peak is a mountain

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located in

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, United States.

Description

Cobb Peak is the fourth-highest summit in the Silver Island Mountains which are a subset of the Great Basin Ranges. It is set on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The

Bonneville Speedway Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed rec ...

is 12 miles to the southwest and

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Graham Peak is three miles to the west.

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is significant as the summit rises above the

Bonneville Salt Flats The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, it is the largest of many salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake. It is public land managed by the ...

in two miles. This landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1960 by the

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to honor John Cobb (1899–1952), an

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racing driver who set three

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s at the Bonneville Salt Flats, including a record 394 MPH on September 16, 1947.United States Board on Geographic Names (1960), ''Decisions on Names in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Decision List 6001'', Department of the Interior, p. 51Northey, Tom (1974), "Land Speed Record: The Fastest Men on Earth", World of Automobiles, Vol. 10. London: Orbis, p. 1163.

Climate

Cobb Peak is set in the

Great Salt Lake Desert The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for w ...

which has hot summers and cold winters. The desert is an example of a

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as the desert's elevation makes temperatures cooler than lower elevation deserts. Due to the high elevation and aridity, temperatures drop sharply after sunset. Summer nights are comfortably cool. Winter highs are generally above freezing, and winter nights are bitterly cold, with temperatures often dropping well below freezing.

Gallery

File:Bonneville Salt Flats, Silver Island Mountains.jpg, Jenkins Peak (left), Graham Peak (center), and Cobb Peak to the right. File:John Cobb (motorist).jpg, John Cobb

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Mountains of Utah Mountains of Tooele County, Utah North American 2000 m summits Great Salt Lake Desert Mountains of the Great Basin

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