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'''Cook Glacier''' is a glacier which flows in a north-north-easterly direction to [[St Andrews Bay, South Georgia|St Andrews Bay]] on the north coast of [[South Georgia]]. | '''Cook Glacier''' is a glacier which flows in a north-north-easterly direction to [[St Andrews Bay, South Georgia|St Andrews Bay]] on the north coast of [[South Georgia]]. | ||
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Cook Glacier is a glacier which flows in a north-north-easterly direction to St Andrews Bay on the north coast of South Georgia.
The glacier was named by the German group of the International Polar Year Investigations based at nearby Moltke Harbour in 1882–83, for Captain James Cook.[1]
Landsat ETM satellite imagery 2003 showed considerable deglaciation had occurred, exposing a proglacial lake at its snout and moraine debris accumulating at the edges.
Location
- Location: 54°28’0"S, 36°12’0"W
References
- ↑ "Clayton Glacier, Antarctica". https://geographic.org/geographic_names/antname.php?uni=3085&fid=antgeo_105. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Cook Glacier
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