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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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Feature type: Glacier (12)
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:
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
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.
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