Cotton glacier
| Cotton glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 7 ′ S , 161 ° 40 ′ E | |
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The Cotton Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows along the southern flank of the Clare Range in an easterly direction between Sperm Bluff and Queer Mountain .
The geological west group under the direction of the British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor discovered the glacier during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913). Taylor named it after the Australian geologist Leo Arthur Cotton (1883-1963), participant in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Cotton Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cotton Glacier on geographic.org (English)