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Cook Ice Cap
Calotte Glaciaire Cook
Aerial view of the ice cap.
Map showing the location of Cook Ice CapMap showing the location of Cook Ice Cap
TypeIce cap
LocationKerguelen, Southern Indian Ocean
Coordinates49°18′50″S 69°02′29″E / 49.31389°S 69.04139°E / -49.31389; 69.04139
Area400 km (150 sq mi)
Length28 kilometres (17 mi)
Thickness400 m (1,300 ft) average
TerminusOutlet glaciers
StatusRetreating

The Cook Ice Cap or Cook Glacier (French: Calotte Glaciaire Cook or Glacier Cook) is a large ice cap in the Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories zone of the far Southern Indian Ocean.

Geography

The Cook Ice Cap reaches a maximum elevation of 1,049 metres (3,442 ft) in its central area. It had a surface of approximately 500 km (190 sq mi) in 1963, having shrunk to about 400 km (150 sq mi) in recent times.

Named after British explorer James Cook (1728–1779), on French navigational charts of the early 20th century this ice cap appears as 'Glacier Richthofen'

Location in Grande-Terre (Kerguelen) .
Glacier terminus at the southern end.

Glaciers

About sixty glaciers flow from the inner ice cap in a roughly radial pattern. At the feet of the snout of these outlet glaciers there are often terminal moraines with dammed lakes of varying sizes. Further down the glacial meltwaters have formed numerous outwash plains at certain, mostly inland, locations. Of the glaciers originating in the Cook Ice Cap, only the Pasteur and Mariotte Glaciers have their termini in the Indian Ocean at the Anse des Glaçons in southwestern Kerguelen's deeply indented coastline.<ref name="IPFPEV">Institut polaire français Paul Émile Victor : La fonte spectaculaire du plus gros glacier français<{Citation 

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The following are the main glaciers listed clockwise:

See also

References

  1. "Calotte Glaciaire Cook". Mapcarta. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  2. GoogleEarth
  3. Cite error: The named reference IPFPEV was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. Transpolair L'Illustration 11 September 1909, no 3472
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