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Cook Ice Shelf
Cook Ice Shelf
is an
ice shelf
about wide, occupying a deep recession of the coastline between
Cape Freshfield
and
Cape Hudson
, to the east of
Deakin Bay
. This indentation was called
Cook Bay
by the
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
, 1911–14, under
Douglas Mawson
, who named it for
Joseph Cook
,
Prime Minister of Australia
in 1914. The generic term has been amended, as the bay is permanently filled by an ice shelf.
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