Cook Glacier
Cook Glacier is a glacier which flows in a north-northeasterly direction to Saint Andrews Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was named by the German group of the International Polar Year Investigations based at nearby Moltke Harbour in 1882–83, for Captain James Cook.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Buxton Glacier and Mount Burley.
Buxton Glacier
Glacier
Photo: BluesyPete, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buxton Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast between Heaney Glacier and Cook Glacier, on the north coast of the island of South Georgia, immediately south of Mount Skittle.
Mount Burley
Peak
Mount Burley is a peak, 895 metres high, located 2 nautical miles southwest of Doris Bay, South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Lieutenant Commander Malcolm K.
Nachtigal Peak
Peak
Nachtigal Peak is a rocky peak on a spur projecting northward from the southeast extremity of the Allardyce Range, South Georgia. It rises to 1,160 m at the west side of the head of Cook Glacier, 4 nautical miles east of Nordenskjold Peak.
Cook Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 32 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.47766° or 54° 28′ 40″ southLongitude
-36.21026° or 36° 12′ 37″ westElevation
32 metres (105 feet)Open location code
39Q5GQCQ+WVOpenStreetMap ID
way 484364886OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cook Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cook Glacier”
- Chinese: “庫克冰川”
- German: “Cook-Gletscher”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cookbreen i Sør-Georgia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cookbreen”
- Swedish: “Cook Glacier”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Clark Point and Little Moltke Harbour.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Nachtigal Glacier and King penguin.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cook Glacier”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.