| Cooke Glacier | |
|---|---|
  Location of Cooke Glacier in Antarctica | |
| Location | Ellsworth Land |
| Coordinates | 72°44′S 88°34′W / 72.733°S 88.567°W |
| Length | 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Fletcher Peninsula |
| Status | unknown |
Cooke Glacier (72°44′S 88°34′W / 72.733°S 88.567°W) is a glacier about 6 nautical miles (11 km) long flowing north from the northern end of the Fletcher Peninsula. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Kirsten Cooke Healey, of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a computer graphics specialist from the mid-1990s onwards for the USGS project that is compiling the Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers and 25 Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of Antarctica.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ "Cooke Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
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