Name details

Cotton Glacier

Cotton Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cotton Glacier  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113059

Feature type: Glacier (12)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An ill-defined stream of glacial ice lying at the south side of Mackay Glacier flowing to a basin and the snowfields at the south of Mackay Glacier, in Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MD08

Named For

Discovered by the Western Geological Party, led by Taylor, of the British Antarctic Expedition (Terra Nova expedition, BrAE), 1910-13. Named by Taylor in honour of Professor Leslie A Cotton, of the Geology Department of Sydney University. Cotton had earlier been a Summer Party member of the British Antarctic Expedition (Nimrod expedition, BAE), 1907-09.

Location

Latitude:
77° 07' 52.7" S
-77.13130°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 37' 07.5" E
161.61876°
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Altitude:
389 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 17_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
1-Jan-1958

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