Cook glacier
See also: Cook
The glacier Cook is a Icecap ( icefield in English) which recovers the mid-west of the Grande Ground, the principal island of the islands Kerguelen.
It culminates with 1.049 meters of altitude and covers approximately 500 km ². It is largest Glacier entirely French but its withdrawal has accelerated obviously for several decades.
It runs out towards the sea by an about sixty glacial languages of which some still reach the Indian Ocean. The cast iron torrents of the glacier formed of the sandar, broad characteristic valleys flat-bottomed where settle the morainic materials. With the foot even of the glacier, the frontal Moraine S generally retain Lac S of cast iron.
On the chart of the French Ministry of the Marine of the beginning of the 20th century, the glacier appears under the name of glacier Richthofen.
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