Cooke Glacier
Glacier in Antarctica
72°44′S 88°34′W / 72.733°S 88.567°W / -72.733; -88.567
Cooke Glacier (72°44′S 88°34′W / 72.733°S 88.567°W / -72.733; -88.567) 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
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
- Glaciology
References
- ^ "Cooke Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- This article incorporates public domain material from "Cooke Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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