Cole Glacier
| Cole Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 18 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 42 ′ S , 66 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Traffic Circle | |
The Cole Glacier is an 18 km long glacier in southern Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a north-northeast direction along the Godfrey Upland to the Traffic Circle glacier system .
It was discovered in 1940 by participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). A rough mapping was done in 1958 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1962 after Humphrey Cole (≈1530–1591), the most important English designer of scientific equipment of the Elizabethan age , who developed portable navigational instruments and thus equipped Martin Frobisher's expeditions .
Web links
- Cole Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cole Glacier on geographic.org (English)