Cooke Glacier () is a

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its Ablation#Glaciology, ablation over many years, often Century, centuries. It acquires dis ...

about long flowing north from the northern end of the

Fletcher Peninsula Fletcher Peninsula is a broad ice-covered peninsula which extends into the Bellingshausen Sea between the Abbot and Venable ice shelves in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 19 ...

. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

after Kirsten Cooke Healey, of the

United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...

(USGS), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, a computer graphics specialist from the mid-1990s onwards for the USGS project that is compiling the Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers and 25 Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of Antarctica.

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* Glaciers of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-glacier-stub

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