Cooke Glacier
| Cooke Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 88 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Cooke Glacier is a 10 km long ice stream on the Bryan coast of west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows from the northern end of the Fletcher Peninsula in a northerly direction to Lake Bellingshausen .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Kirsten Cooke Healy from the United States Geological Survey , a computer specialist in the US-British project to create glaciological maps and those for coastal changes on the Antarctic Peninsula from the mid-1990s.
Web links
- Cooke Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cooke Glacier on geographic.org (English)