- Cooke Glacier
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Cooke Glacier (72°44′S 88°34′W / 72.733°S 88.567°W) is a glacier about 6 nautical miles (11 km) long flowing north from the northern end of Fletcher Peninsula. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Kirsten Cooke Healey, United States Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, computer graphics specialist from the mid 1990s to the present for the USGS project that is compiling the Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers and 25 Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of Antarctica.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cooke Glacier" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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