Cotton Glacier
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Cotton Glacier is a glacier
about 10 miles (16.1 km) long on the south side of the Clare Range
, flowing eastward between Sperm Bluff
and Queer Mountain
, in Victoria Land
. It was discovered by the Western Geological Party, led by Thomas Griffith Taylor
, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named by Taylor for Professor Leo A. Cotton, of the geology department of Sydney University. Cotton had earlier been a Summer Party member of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09.
Glacier
A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...
about 10 miles (16.1 km) long on the south side of the Clare Range
Clare Range
Clare Range is the range extending west-southwest from Sperm Bluff to the Willett Range on the south side of Mackay Glacier, in Victoria Land. It was circumnavigated in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition , and named by them after Clare...
, flowing eastward between Sperm Bluff
Sperm Bluff
Sperm Bluff is a prominent dark bluff, 3 nautical miles long and over 1,000 m high, forming the northeast extremity of Clare Range, in Victoria Land. Charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–1913. When viewed from the east, the north face of the bluff suggests the blunt head of...
and Queer Mountain
Queer Mountain
Queer Mountain is a conspicuous black mountain with steep slopes showing bands of sandstone above the granite, standing 1 mile west of Killer Ridge, between the Cotton and Miller Glaciers, in Victoria Land...
, in Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It was discovered by the Western Geological Party, led by Thomas Griffith Taylor
Thomas Griffith Taylor
Thomas Griffith "Grif" Taylor was a British / Australian geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. He was a survivor of Captain Robert Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica .-Early life:...
, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named by Taylor for Professor Leo A. Cotton, of the geology department of Sydney University. Cotton had earlier been a Summer Party member of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09.