Cosgrove Ice Shelf

Cosgrove Ice Shelf (73°34′S 100°22′W / 73.567°S 100.367°W / -73.567; -100.367Coordinates: 73°34′S 100°22′W / 73.567°S 100.367°W / -73.567; -100.367), is a 35-mile long by 25 mile wide ice shelf, occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between King and Canisteo Peninsulas, Antarctica. Mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Jerome R. Cosgrove, U.S. Navy Reserve (USNR), asst. communications officer on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Navy (USN) Support Force, Antarctica, during U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze, 1967 and 1968.^[1]

See also

• Ice shelves of Antarctica

Notes

1. ^ "Cosgrove Ice Shelf". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:3195. Retrieved 2009-11-06. 

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cosgrove Ice Shelf" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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