Cooper glacier
| Cooper glacier | ||
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 30 ′ S , 164 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Axel Heiberg Glacier | |
The Cooper Glacier is a 24 kilometer long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows in a northeasterly direction between the Butchers Spur and the Quarles Range to the southern flank of the Axel-Heiberg-Glacier in the Königin-Maud-Mountains .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him in 1929 on one of his flights to the Queen Maud Mountains during his first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930). Byrd named the glacier after the American journalist Kent Cooper (1880-1965) from the Associated Press .
Web links
- Cooper Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cooper Glacier on geographic.org (English)